After explosion at al-Ahli Arab hospital that Hamas says killed hundreds, survivors know there is no safe place in Gaza for civilians
city balcony captured a whistling overhead, the thump of a giant blast, then a fireball lighting up the dark sky., one of the city’s leading medical centres, on this evening crammed with doctors, patients and large numbers of refugees who had come seeking sanctuary from a fierce campaign of Israeli airstrikes.
Hundreds of people were injured and killed, according to Gaza officials; bodies lay on the ground between scattered belongings and burned-out cars. Many victims were torn apart or thrown across the hospital in the explosion.“In between cases I heard the screech of two missiles and then a loud explosion. The false ceiling in the operating room fell,” said a British-Palestinian doctor, Ghassan abu Sitta, who saw “hundreds of severely injured and dead” at the scene.
Hours later, doctors held a bleak press conference surrounded by body bags. They described gruesome injuries. Victims were found decapitated, disembowelled and missing limbs, the Gaza health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, said. At least 500 people were killed, Gaza officials said hours after the blast.
Ambulances and private cars took 350 people to the city’s biggest hospital, Dar al-Shifa, its director, Mohammed abu Selmia, told the Associated Press., the hospital’s doctors were reduced to attempting surgery on the floor and in the halls, mostly without anaesthesia.
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