**Young Boy Helps at Gaza Hospital**
Zakaria, 11, has seen thousands of dead bodies since the war began in Gaza. Instead of being in school, he volunteers at al-Aqsa hospital, where ambulances bring victims of war between Israel and Hamas.
Zakaria helps clear the crowds and rush patients inside for treatment. He claims to have seen over 5,000 corpses. “I saw a child die in front of me after an Israeli attack,” he says. Zakaria is one of many children followed by BBC documentary makers for nine months.
The film, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, shows how Gazans are trying to survive the conflict. It focuses on three young children and a woman with a baby. The military action was a response to Hamas’ attacks on southern Israel in October 2023, which killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.
**A Young Boy’s Story**
Zakaria lives alone at the hospital, sleeping wherever he can. He helps carry equipment for local journalists and cleans the ambulances when there is quiet. Hospital staff try to keep him away from the chaos, but they see how he takes care of them and the other patients.
They teach Zakaria how to give someone an intravenous drip in recognition of his efforts. The hospital staff even make him miniature blue scrubs, which he takes pride in. Zakaria wants to be a paramedic one day, but first, he needs to get out of Gaza.
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