Al-Ahli Hospital cannot cope with injuries streaming in from Gaza school attack
There is a huge influx of people pouring into the hospital after the attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school. Many of those arriving are in critical condition.
But [al-Ahli Hospital] lacks enough staff and medicine, so it cannot provide adequate medical care. It’s on the brink of collapse. Among the people arriving are children and women. Many are arriving either soaked in blood or already pronounced dead.
There are over 100 dead and the number continues to go up.
Meanwhile, paramedics and volunteers are still working to remove bodies from the bombed site. They are struggling as the bombs that were dropped on the school also set fire to the facility.
Such bombs are packed with nails and shrapnel. When they explode, they not only cause a fire to break out, but their flying pieces cut through flesh.
Footage of the attack that we saw showed people being picked up from the ground in pieces.
Israel used 2,000-pound bombs to hit Daraj school: Gaza media office
Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, has told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army used three bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (907kg) each in its attack on the al-Tabin school in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.
The attack has killed at least 100 people by the most recent count, with that number expected to rise as al-Ahli Hospital struggles to cope with the severe injuries that resulted from the attack.
Al-Thawabta added that Israel was aware of the presence of displaced people inside the school.
Displaced Palestinians gather in the yard of Gaza City’s al-Tabin school after it was hit by an Israeli strike, killing more than 100 people, on August 10
Flying shrapnel hit children in Gaza City school classrooms
More details are emerging about the attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school and the scene at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where many victims are being taken.
On top of the people killed inside the school’s prayer hall during the attack, others, including women and children, were killed inside nearby classrooms, hit by flying shrapnel from the bombs, reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.
Many victims being brought to the hospital are severely bleeding from shrapnel or severely burned from the fire that broke out from the bombardment.
Staff at the hospital have so few resources that they are forced to use recycled materials to treat the wounded – material that in any other context would just be thrown away, reports Mahmoud.
Many of the bodies being brought in are hard to recognise, so relatives at the hospital searching for their loved ones are struggling to find any way to identify them, he adds.
People check the damage inside al-Tabin school in Gaza City on August 10
