She spends seven days with David Halpin, who's chartered a vessel to take 55 tonnes of aid to the Gaza Strip. Three quarters of the population of this troubled region are refugees and many people are malnourished. The orthopaedic surgeon wants to make sure the aid he's providing gets to the people who need it most by taking it to them directly.
David and his companions face a difficult task in this hostile environment. They arrive as two Palestinians are killed and a house is blown up in a revenge attack for the death of four Israeli soldiers. As he sits in the rubble that was once his home, the owner of the house said he would be honoured if his son had killed the soldiers.
But how much impact can an individual contribution make in an area that remains one of the worst flash-points in the Palestinian - Israeli conflict?
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