GAZA – Mohammed Tahir, a surgeon on his third medical mission to Gaza at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, spoke to Al Jazeera about the situation at the hospital after today’s attacks. He said he was in the operating room, dealing with a nerve injury, when he heard the blasts on a nearby school-turned-shelter.

He said the whole hospital was “inundated” with casualties, with women, children and men “dying in front of our eyes”. While in the operating room, he said another bombing happened within the grounds of the hospital. He said it is “beyond any rationale that a hospital can be attacked in such a grave manner”.

“People are traumatised. People have got to the point where they feel there is no hope … no one is coming to save them,” he said. He pleaded to the rest of the world “to do more” as the actions of the Israeli military are “not acceptable”. “If you walk through the wards, you have children covered in bandages from head to toe, and those are the ones that have survived, it’s really a terrible situation,” he said.

Photo: The grandmother of Palestinian boy Yaman al-Zaanin, who was killed in an Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter, Deir el-Balah. (Reuters)…[+]