According to Hamas, at least 70 people were killed in an attack on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday evening. The Israeli army said it was “reviewing the incident.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported “heartbreaking” testimonies collected by its teams on Monday at a hospital in the Gaza Strip, where victims of the al-Maghazi refugee camp bombing are being held. “The WHO team has heard heartbreaking stories from medical workers and victims of the suffering caused by the explosions,” the UN agency’s head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X (formerly Twitter).
“A child lost his entire family in the strike in the camp. A nurse at the hospital suffered the same loss, her entire family was killed,” he added. According to Hamas, at least 70 people were killed in an attack on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday evening. The Israeli army said it was “reviewing the incident.” An independent verification of this figure was not possible.
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“Many won’t survive the wait”
Before a funeral, many bodies lay lined up in white body bags on the floor of al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. According to the WHO chief, the hospital said it admitted around a hundred injured people after the bombing. “The number of patients treated in the hospital far exceeds its bed and staff capacity,” he stressed. “Many will not survive the wait.” “This latest attack on a community in Gaza clearly shows why we need an immediate ceasefire,” he wrote.
Sean Casey, a member of the WHO mission, said he witnessed the care of a seriously injured 9-year-old boy named Ahmed. “He was simply treated with sedatives to ease his suffering before he died,” he described in a video filmed at the hospital, appearing to hold back tears. “He was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family was staying and the building next to him was hit,” he said. “He was hit by shrapnel and debris, his brain tissue was affected.”
“No one can do anything for him. As in so many cases here, there is no capacity to treat complex neurological cases and complex trauma cases,” he lamented. “The operating theaters operate 24 hours a day. The emergency room is way, way beyond capacity,” this WHO official said. “This situation is unacceptable,” he said angrily. “That has to stop.”