Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world, except for one group: international doctors. While global media are barred from reporting and governments look away, surgeons, physicians and nurses from Britain and beyond breach the blockade to volunteer in its hospitals, there to share their expertise and support their Palestinian colleagues. Instead, they find themselves the sole international witnesses to something far worse than a humanitarian crisis, a calculated dismantling of life itself. Covering the two years of the genocide, ‘Life Support’ is built largely from footage the doctors shot on their phones, both as evidence of their work and as video diaries recorded at the end of impossible shifts in Gaza’s hospitals.

Plastic surgeon Victoria Rose, gastrointestinal surgeon Nick Maynard and paediatric intensive care doctor Tanya Haj Hassan navigate bombed-out hospitals, dwindling supplies, starvation and an overwhelming, relentless flow of casualties, predominantly women and children. Through it all, the doctors and their Palestinian colleagues fight to keep their humanity intact and to go on delivering care. Beyond the wards, Gazan cameramen Mahmoud Abou Hamda and Suleiman Hejjy capture the impossible living conditions and the destruction all around, completing a rare first-hand chronicle of a health system kept alive under siege.