"Due to the war, he doesn't have most of his medicines and didn't receive proper treatment," says doctor Fadia al-Haw seconds before lights went off due to power cuts at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza. Her patient is 6-year-old Mahmoud Rajab, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, a rare chronic disease that requires special food and medication. "Before the war, my son was coping with this disease to a certain extent," explains his father Ramadan Rajab, but since war erupted in Gaza "his condition deteriorated day by day until, as you can see, he ended up in intensive care". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES