Israeli airstrikes: Scores of injured overwhelm Gaza hospitals
Gaza medics and health authorities said on Tuesday that Israel’s sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, as ambulances ferried in hundreds of badly injured survivors.
It was reported that rescue workers were running with stretchers across smoking debris, ambulances rushing to hospitals, a morgue full of bloodied bodies in white bags, and casualties lying outside while relatives mourned the dead.
Speaking to reporters, Mohammad Qishta, a Medicins Sans Frontieres emergency doctor working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said they had received at least 400 cases in less than two hours.
“There were some serious cases such as third degree burns on the face, amputations, wounds on the head, wounds on the chest,” he said.
Gaza health authorities issued an urgent statement on Tuesday asking residents to donate blood, saying stocks of different blood types had been exhausted
