Sky News' Deborah Haynes is given access to Israel's expanding rehabilitation wards for troops as the war with Hamas ramps up.
Hands pulling the wheels on his wheelchair, a young Israeli soldier led the way into his hospital bedroom, both legs patched up after surgery for three gunshot wounds. The reservist, a member of an elite unit called the counter-terror school, was wounded as he helped to recapture a rural community near Gaza that had been overrun by Hamas militants.
With the militants still at large, his unit was ordered to try to find civilians who might still be hiding inside the small stone houses that made up the community of around 1,000 residents. The soldier said he was warned some of the attackers might be dressed in Israeli security uniforms or civilian clothing, making them hard to distinguish. The unit also had to be careful not to open fire on other Israeli forces involved in the rescue. 'You had to think twice before you pull the trigger.
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