Within the ruined Al Shifa “no one was spared”, says the pinnacle of a rescue group, after Israeli troopers withdrew from the hospital complicated within the northern Gaza Strip, describing photographs of “our bodies scattered” within the rubble.
Dozens of passers-by witness the magnitude of the destruction. Some rummage by way of the ruins, possibly they'll discover one thing worthwhile. Some buildings have been leveled. Others are nonetheless standing, having suffered appreciable injury. Fireplace nonetheless smolders in a broken constructing.
Three males carry an injured man away on a stretcher.
Al Shifa hospital, the most important in the whole Gaza Strip, “has been utterly destroyed,” Faris Afana, head of a rescue group, advised AFP. “We should put an finish to those massacres of civilians and youngsters. Nobody was spared right here,” he factors out.
Whereas rescuers are nonetheless trying to find these trapped within the rubble, firefighters are attempting to extinguish the smoldering fireplace in a constructing of the complicated.
“What is occurring here’s a catastrophe for humanity and the well being system within the Gaza Strip,” says Faris Afana, complaining that buildings have been torched and demolished by Israeli occupation forces. On the similar time, he appeals to the worldwide group “to cease the massacres in opposition to the Palestinian individuals”.
A person factors to our bodies scattered within the streets across the hospital and says to the digicam: “They’ll bury us right here… We is not going to depart right here.”
The Israeli navy introduced earlier as we speak that it had “accomplished” its operations within the Al Shifa hospital complicated and withdrawn its forces. He had beforehand claimed to have found “giant portions of weapons” on hospital grounds, that his forces had handled “terrorists” and that they’d “prevented harming employees and sufferers”.
The pinnacle of the rescue group describes the destruction of hospital beds as “unthinkable” and emphasizes that he has been “shocked” by the silence of the worldwide group, particularly the Arab world. “When are they going to do one thing? When the whole Palestinian persons are annihilated?”, he wonders.
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