Hospitals reach breaking point following Israel's attack - British-Palestinian doctor

SHAH ALAM - The number of wounded Palestinians has exceeded the number of beds at a hospital which has been bombed by Israel.

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Gassan Abu-Sittah who was moved from the Shifa Hospital to the Al-Ahli Hospital to assist with the growing number of wounded patients detailed the horrors he witnessed during the attack by Israel.

He said as the medical team tirelessly worked to treat the injured Palestinians, a missile struck the facility.

"In the evening after we finished one of the surgeries we heard a missile screech followed by a huge explosion and as a result of the explosion, part of the ceiling of the operating room fell.

"As I moved towards the outside of the operating room and towards the emergency department, we could see bodies of children piled up both dead, not moving and wounded.

"There were several who had been amputated. I tended to a man who had his leg blown off at the thigh.

"We then carried on trying to resuscitate the patients when the ambulance came I decided to help out by carrying one of the wounded who had a shrapnel in his neck into the ambulance.

"As I was walking towards the ambulance, there were body parts everywhere and there were bodies piled up in the courtyard of the hospital. I then got into the ambulance and escorted the patient to Shifa Hospital," he said in a press conference aired on thechannel0711 TikTok platform.

Dr Gassan said he and the other doctors would be operating on patients all day and they also decided to stay overnight to continue treating the patients.

He said previously the hospital's courtyard was filled with families seeking refuge believing it to be a place of safety but the same families were now either dead or critically wounded as a result of Israel's attack.

This, he said was a war crime that the world had seen coming.

"Israel has been warning the entire world that it was going to attack Palestinian hospitals and it did exactly that.

"Every Western politician who has declared unconditional support for Israel's war effort on the Palestinian people has the blood of these children on their hands.

"That unconditional support is what led us to this massacre. The impunity that Israel believes it has from its western allies is what has led to this massacre.

"What happened today is a war crime and if the Israelis get away with it again, then more war crimes will be committed and more hospitals will be targeted," he said.