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Gaza death toll rises to 4,651: health ministry
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  • 2023-10-22 09:12:07

BBC Arabic's Adnan El-Bursh has been reporting from Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, which has been overwhelmed with casualties.

Our reporter says procedures taking place at the hospital are extremely rushed, and bodies are being wrapped in white cloth in the outer courtyard.

We brought you photos from outside the hospital earlier - and this morning, we reported on images that were emerging of dead children at the hospital, including two babies.

Staff say the hospital is struggling to cope.

"We’ve been here since the crack of dawn and the bodies have completely filled the hospital yard, on top of the bodies which are in refrigerators which are full, inside the hospital building and outside," a member of staff says.

"We don’t have enough shrouds for the bodies because the numbers are huge. All bodies are arriving in parts, unattached and in pieces. We can’t identify them because the bodies have been disfigured and crushed."

In footage from the scene, a stream of vehicles is arriving carrying wounded people, some able to walk into the hospital.

A car arrives, tyres screeching and a man calls out: "Quickly, quickly!" The patient is rushed away. Inside, parents are carrying their wounded children.

"Frankly, the situation is catastrophic, it’s unbearable," says the member of staff.

"Despite everything we’ve witnessed before, these are scenes we’ve never seen."

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