An American volunteer doctor sent to Israel recounts the atrocities he witnessed.
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“There is no mercy,” he said in an interview with CNN.
Nic Robertson says he met two children taken hostage whose stories particularly touched him as he revived and treated other victims.
“We were in a closet for 12 hours. The army came and freed them. Then they told me: “I saw my parents killed in front of my eyes. I’m hungry, I haven’t eaten anything in 12 hours.” »
“Seeing this brutality and understanding that these are young children who are suffering like this… will take a long time to digest. I started crying yesterday,” he added.
“To see people being able to do this is surreal,” he said.
“We were on the front lines. We saw the rockets coming. A residential building was blown up in an attack. We kept hearing shots,” he says.
“They executed people in their homes. The attacks were constant. They didn’t just shoot. They stabbed people, shot them and slit their throats,” the doctor reveals.
A preliminary report said more than 560 people have been killed in the area since Saturday.