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The chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross has given a harrowing account of an amputation his team performed at a hospital in southern Gaza in a video diary shared with Sky News.

Dr Tom Potokar said his team had to amputate the hand of a six-year-old child with “very deep burn injuries”.

He said the boy’s hand had been “charred” and was the cause of ongoing infection which was making him very unwell.

The child remains in a critical condition.

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Dr Potokar sent the eyewitness account from the European Gaza Hospital in southern Gaza.

He described “another very busy day” in theatre where his team were dealing with “very limited resources, very limited monitoring and really far from ideal circumstances anesthetising patients”.

They are, nevertheless, able to get patients in a position where they can operate on them, thanks to the “amazing” work of his anaesthetist, he said.

Israel has been urging civilians in northern Gaza to travel to the south as it continues to push forward with its ground operations following the 7 October attacks.

However, bombardments have continued in the south.

Dr Potokar said patients are still arriving at the hospital where colleagues are dealing with “many burns”, complicated blast injuries with extensive tissue loss and bone injury.

A nursing staff shortage was presenting a major challenge due to the large number of dressing changes they are having to contend with, he said.

They are also “inundated with internally displaced people”, he added.

Meanwhile, Dr Potokar said bombardment continues every night, including “one very close at 1.30am this morning which whistled over the top of the building”.

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To the north, Israeli strikes have been pounding Gaza City as ground forces battle Hamas fighters near its largest hospital.

Health officials said medics, patients and displaced people were trapped in the al Shifa Hospital with no electricity and dwindling supplies.

Israel claims the al Shifa hospital is a command centre for Hamas, a claim the group – which the UK has designated a proscribed terrorist organisation – has denied.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected growing international calls for a ceasefire, saying Israel’s battle to crush Hamas militants will continue with “full force”.

Former Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena has died at the age of 28 after collapsing during a match in Albania.

Dwamena lost consciousness while playing for the local Egnatia team on Saturday in the country’s Super League, the Albanian Football Federation said in a statement.

Footage on social media appeared to show the player by himself and then falling over on the field in the 24th minute of the match with Partizani.

First aid was administered before he was rushed to hospital.

“Despite the immediate intervention of specialist doctors and all efforts to bring him back to life, the footballer unfortunately passed away,” the federation said.

No cause of death was given.

The game was halted at 1-1 with no further play. All games scheduled in Albania this week have been postponed, the federation added.

Dwamena was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2017. A proposed £14m transfer to Brighton that year fell through after he failed a medical.

He collapsed on the pitch during a 2021 game in Austria between his side Blau-Weiss Linz and Hartberg but recovered and continued his playing career.

Dwamena went on to play for Levante in the Spanish La Liga for one season as well as Real Zaragoza on loan in 2019-20. His career also included stints in Denmark and Switzerland.

Levante paid tribute to Dwamena on social media, saying: “We would like to express our deepest condolences for the passing of our former player, Raphael Dwamena.

“Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this difficult time. His legacy at our club will always endure.”

Zaragoza said on X, formerly known as Twitter: “We are devastated by the sad news of the passing of our former player Raphael Dwamena. You will always be in the memory of Zaragoza’s fans. Rest in peace.”

Dwamena made nine appearances for Ghana and scored two goals.

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“He served his country well and showed class anytime he represented Ghana,” Ghana Football Association President Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku said in a statement.

He had also been the leading scorer in the Albanian league this season with nine goals.

Hezbollah says it fired on an Israeli team installing ‘eavesdropping and spying devices’ near the border.     

Israel says its fighter jets have pounded Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon after an incoming antitank missile wounded Israelis near the border.

The Israeli army on Sunday said “a number of civilians were wounded” in the antitank missile strike near the village of Dovev, just 800 metres (0.5 miles) from the frontier with Lebanon.

The Israel Electric Corporation said the missile from Lebanon “hit employees” who were in Dovev to repair power lines downed by earlier strikes.

Iran-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility and said it had fired on an Israeli team installing “eavesdropping and spying devices” near the border.

Since the October 7 Hamas attack followed by Israel’s offensive on Gaza, Israel has also traded fire with armed groups in southern Lebanon on a near-daily basis.

Israel has killed more than 11,000 people – 74 percent of them women and children – as the Gaza assault forces the displacement of 1.7 million people over the past five weeks.

In addition to Hezbollah, Hamas’s Lebanese branch has also launched attacks into southern Israel in recent weeks.

The Israeli army said 15 rockets were fired towards northern Israel from Lebanon on Sunday, with four intercepted by a missile defence system.

The Lebanese branch of Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the attacks targeting the Israeli cities of Haifa, Nahariya and Shlomi in response to “massacres and aggression” in Gaza. Israeli medics said at least 10 people were injured.

Cross-border attacks from Lebanon have killed at least six Israeli soldiers and two civilians, according to the army and paramedics.

Israeli leaders have warned Hezbollah against launching a full-scale attack on Israel, saying it could suffer a similar fate to besieged Gaza if it enters the war.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006.

Iyer and Rahul tons help India to a 160-run win over the Netherlands, who finish at the bottom of the group standings.

Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul hit hundreds as Cricket World Cup hosts India geared up for the semifinals with a crushing 160-run victory over the Netherlands to keep their 100 percent record intact with nine group wins.

After their colleagues had departed following breezy fifties on a good M Chinnaswamy Stadium track, Iyer (128 not out) struck his fourth one-day international (ODI) ton before Rahul (102) exploded as the duo lit up the stage on the Hindu festival of Diwali to get India to 410-4 on Sunday.

Requiring a record World Cup chase to win, the bottom-placed Dutch side got good starts from Max O’Dowd (30), Colin Ackermann (35), Sybrand Engelbrecht (45) and Teja Nidamanuru (54), but they never threatened and were dismissed for 250 in 47.5 overs.

Mohammed Siraj (2-29) overcame a throat injury suffered in a dropped catch to dazzle alongside Kuldeep Yadav (2-41), Jasprit Bumrah (2-33) and Ravindra Jadeja (2-49) to secure victory for India, who face New Zealand in the semifinals on Wednesday.

Iyer reached his century in 84 balls and finished with 10 fours and five sixes while Rahul needed only 62 balls for his ton, getting there with two huge sixes in the last over that took India past 400.

The duo forged a 208-run partnership – the highest fourth-wicket stand in World Cups – as India scored 126 runs in their final 10 overs to post the third total above 400 in the event.

India put the Netherlands to the sword after winning the toss and opting to bat as skipper Rohit Sharma (61) and Shubman Gill (51) smashed boundaries at will to give them a superb platform with 91 runs in the powerplay.

Gill was severe on the bowlers with three fours and four sixes, but the world’s top-ranked batsman found the man in the deep while taking on a short one from Paul van Meekeren after reaching his 12th half-century.

The Netherlands chipped away and were rewarded when Bas de Leede had Rohit caught at wide long-on, but Virat Kohli (51) and Iyer took India past 200 runs in the 29th over with a 71-run stand.

Kohli delighted the crowd with a wide array of shots after a shaky start to his quest to reach 50 ODI tons and eclipse Sachin Tendulkar’s record, but Roelof van der Merwe briefly silenced fans by breaking his stumps with a flatter one.

Still, Kohli surpassed South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (591) as the leading batsman of the 2023 tournament with 594 runs.

In reply, the Dutch were never in the chase and kept losing regular wickets including Kohli striking with his gentle medium-pace to claim a first ODI wicket in nine years.

With the Dutch crawling in their reply, Rohit threw the ball to Kohli who sent back opposition captain Scott Edwards, caught behind in his second over off a ball drifting down the leg side.

It was only Kohli’s fifth career ODI wicket and first since 2014.

The innings folded in 47.5 overs with Rohit ending using his part-time off spin to send back Nidamanuru.

Rohit last picked an ODI wicket in 2012 and this was only his 10th career wicket.

Authorities have already evacuated Grindavik in the country’s southwest after a series of tremors.

Authorities in Iceland have completed the evacuation of some 3,700 residents of a fishing town experts believe could be destroyed by the eruption of a nearby volcano.

The town of Grindavik on the country’s southwestern coast was evacuated after magma shifting under the Earth’s crust caused hundreds of earthquakes in what was believed to be a precursor to an eruption.

“We are really concerned about all the houses and the infrastructure in the area,” Vidir Reynisson, head of Iceland’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management told the AFP news agency.

The town – around 40km (25 miles) southwest of Reykjavik – is located near the Svartsengi geothermal plant, the main supplier of electricity and water to 30,000 residents on the Reykjanes Peninsula, as well as a freshwater reservoir.

Grindavik is also near the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa resort, a popular tourist destination which closed as a precaution earlier this week.

“The magma is now at a very shallow depth, so we are expecting an eruption within a couple of hours at the shortest, but at least within a couple of days,” Reynisson said.

The most likely scenario would be a fissure opening in the ground near Grindavik.

“We have a fissure that’s about 15km [9.3 miles] long, and anywhere on that fissure we can see that an eruption could happen,” Reynisson said.

However, he did not rule out the possibility of an eruption on the ocean floor, which would likely cause a large ash cloud.

“It’s not the most likely scenario, but we can’t rule it out because the end of the… fissure goes into the sea,” he said.

The quakes and ground lift caused by the magma intrusion have already caused damage to roads and buildings in Grindavik and its surroundings.

A large crack also tore up the greens on the Grindavik golf course, an image widely shared on social media networks.

Iceland, which has 33 active volcanic systems, has declared a state of emergency and ordered the mandatory evacuation of Grindavik on Saturday.

Emergency shelters and help centres have opened in several nearby towns, but most Grindavik residents were staying with friends or relatives, media reported.

Three eruptions have taken place on the Reykjanes peninsula in recent years near the Fagradalsfjall volcano: in March 2021, August 2022 and July 2023 — all far from any infrastructure or populated areas.

The Earth’s crust has been fractured “so much over the past three years” by those eruptions, “helping magmatic fluids in finding their path faster”, said Icelandic Met Office’s (IMO) volcanic hazards coordinator Sara Barsotti.

Prior to the March 2021 eruption, the Reykjanes peninsula had been dormant for eight centuries.

Volcanologists believe the new cycle of increased activity could last for several decades or centuries.

Situated in the North Atlantic, Iceland straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack in the ocean floor separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.

A massive eruption in April 2010 at another Iceland volcano – Eyjafjallajokull, in the south of the island – forced the cancellation of some 100,000 flights, leaving more than 10 million travellers stranded.