Mahmud Al Astal is one of many medics providing life-saving care as casualties flood hospitals in Gaza, only to one day discover his sister and her entire family among the dead.

“I went to the morgue and found her charred and in pieces,” the 34-year-old doctor said by phone from the main hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

“On the third day of the fighting, while I was working at the emergency unit in Nasser Hospital, I discovered my sister had been killed with her husband and children,” he said.

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