Gaza surgeon's 'big relief' to be home with family
A Liverpool surgeon has said he felt a "big, big relief" when he was reunited with his family in the UK after fleeing Gaza.
Dr Abdelkader Hammad, who has spent the past 10 years visiting the area to undertake kidney transplants and train local doctors, said he also felt "guilty" after escaping from the war-torn region. He added that he could "smell death" there as many bodies were still under the rubble.
On arriving at Heathrow, nearly a month after war began on 7 October, he said: "It has been four weeks waiting for this moment really to happen, and, I mean at some stage I wasn't sure this would happen, really… but thank God, I am here."
