Injured children without family treated at Al-Aqsa Hospital after Nuseirat attack
Jamal Salha, a doctor at Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital, says the facility is packed with trauma patients, including children, severely hurt in Israel’s indiscriminate attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday.
“In our neurosurgical department, we admitted more than 20 patients with severe head injuries,” Salha told Al Jazeera. “One of them was a child with a head injury that required surgery. Another was a child with a head injury due to shrapnel.
“He [the child] was without his family, most probably his family were killed,” said Salha.
An injured child at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on Saturday
Al Jazeera reporter describes horror inside Gaza’s overwhelmed hospital
The dead and wounded from Israel’s massive assault on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp have overwhelmed hospitals.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary is at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah where the scene resembles a slaughterhouse.
‘Only a deal’ can bring home the rest of the captives: Retired Israeli general
Israel Ziv, the former head of the Israeli military’s operations division, has commented on the rescue of four Israeli captives in a raid that killed more than 200 Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday.
Ziv said there should be a “comprehensive deal” to bring back the remaining captives to end the war. “Only a deal can bring the captives back…such a deal cannot stand alone, it must be part of a comprehensive deal to end the war,” he was quoted as saying by Israel’s Maariv media.
“This time,” he added, “it is more in Israel’s interest than Hamas’s because there is an existential threat looming in the north.”
Ziv added that the operation, one of Israel’s most “complex and dangerous” ever, was a “very big success”. Nevertheless, Hamas will surely draw lessons from it and take steps to deter any future captive-rescue operation, he said, meaning the only way to bring home all the captives is through an exchange deal.
