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"Children with war-related amputations will need up to a dozen surgeries on the limb by the time they reach adulthood because the bone keeps growing, experts say. "But even before the conflict there was a shortage of vascular and plastic surgeons, medics say, and Palestinian health authorities say over 300 healthcare workers have been killed since." "Still, Noor, whose right leg may survive intact, is luckier than some children whose limbs were amputated swiftly due to a lack of time or medical expertise, sometimes without anaesthetics. "Unfortunately many of them are really unnecessary," said Sean Casey, WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator." "At other times, amputation is the only choice because wounded children arrive in hospital days after the injury." "UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said he saw a child whose injured left leg had begun to decompose because he had been stuck on a bus for more than three days due to military checkpoint delays." "Israel's military spokesperson's unit said an operational debrief was held to draw immediate lessons from the incident and that it would be further examined."