Yussef, 13, lay in a bed staring into the distance, his face puffy. Dried blood stained his right leg which was held together with metal rods, AFP reports.

“He was in a complete state of shock when I found him,” said his older brother, under the rubble of their four-storey home in the Shati refugee camp.

In another hospital room further down the corridor, Lubna al-Shafei, 36, said she was being treated for a “neck wound”.

“On October 23, our house in the centre of Gaza City was destroyed. My son was killed and my husband was wounded,” she said.