Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital is in “ruins”, Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera reports.

“As we tour around and get a sense of what happened here at al-Shifa Hospital, it is hard to imagine that this place at a point was quite busy with lots of noise,” Mahmoud says.

“This was the sound of ambulances, medical staff, patients and visitors here in the past. This used to be the largest public health facility in Gaza, but it is now very quiet. It is like a desert here,” he adds.

“Everything here is in ruins from the courtyard to hospital buildings. There are only a few people, who are trying to do some rehabilitation work for one particular section of the hospital,” the reporter said.

He adds that this is the part that was turned into a basic morgue, saying, “It does not serve much for medical care apart from being a transfer point to al-Ahli Hospital.”