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Palestinian gunshot victims in the occupied West Bank are now being shot more often in the head and torso rather than the limbs, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) president Christos Christou says. The medical charity's international president, who recently returned from the West Bank, says that since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7, there had been a "clear shift" in the injuries being witnessed by MSF staff in West Bank hospitals. "The type of trauma they are dealing with has changed completely," Christos Christou tells reporters at MSF's headquarters in Geneva.
Israel declared war on Hamas after the militant group's October 7 attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli authorities, and saw around 240 hostages taken into Gaza. The latest toll from the Hamas-run government media office said 16,248 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, had been killed. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and free 138 hostages still held after scores were released during a short-lived truce. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES