Dr Mohammed Tahir, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, tells Al Jazeera, “This hospital is really completely overwhelmed. There are patients everywhere.”

Dr Tahir made these remarks following the Israeli attack on the UNRWA school in Nuseirat.

“It’s very sad when you see the most vulnerable people of society that are targeted, the children that we saw today, one of whom I had to take to the emergency operating room immediately,” he said.

Treating wounded children with limited resources is emotionally and physically taxing, the doctor said, but he feels compelled to do all he can to help.

“I cannot watch from afar human suffering and not try to help personally. That’s why I’m here,” he told Al Jazeera. “I’m not a politician, having said that this suffering cannot stop without a political solution. In my opinion, the number one way of stopping the human suffering is to bring about a ceasefire.”