‘We are seeing patients who have been burned from the skin right down to the bone,’ says Dr Omar El-Taji, a British surgeon in one of Gaza’s largest remaining hospitals as Israel’s invasion of Rafah deepens. He has been in Gaza for more than a week working out of the European hospital – where he and his team are now staying, after their safe house in Rafah was evacuated.

The Guardian spoke to four people who survived extreme weather events in recent weeks, from catastrophic landslides in India to extreme wildfires in Hawaii