Blood-splattered floor of Gaza’s Nasser hospital full with wounded Palestinians

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Since the truce collapsed, Israel has been posting an online map to tell Gazans which parts of the enclave to evacuate to avoid attacks. Khan Younis’ eastern quarter was marked on Monday, home to hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom took flight on foot.

According to Reuters, Gazans say there is no safe place, with remaining towns and shelters already overwhelmed, and Israel continuing to bomb the areas where it is telling people to go.

At Khan Younis’ main Nasser hospital, the wounded arrived by ambulance, car, flatbed truck and donkey cart after what survivors described as a strike on a school being used as a shelter for the displaced.

Inside a ward, almost every inch of blood-splattered floor space was taken up by the wounded including small children, with medics hurrying from patient to patient while relatives wailed.

Two girls were being treated, still covered in dust from the collapse of the house that had buried their family. “My parents are under the rubble,” sobbed one. “I want my mum, I want my mum, I want my family.”

 Palestinians wounded during Israeli bombardment are transported to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec 5, 2023. — AFP
Palestinians wounded during Israeli bombardment are transported to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec 5, 2023. — AFP

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