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Gaza hospital overwhelmed by dead, wounded civilians

 
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Gaza hospital overwhelmed by dead, wounded civilians
In the photograph above, a Palestinian man holds his head as he reacts at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Monday. At the same hospital, Salah Samouni banged his head against a wall inside the hospital morgue wailing with grief, where the bodies of his three young nephews lay on the floor Monday.

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Running on little sleep
After 10 days of a relentless Israeli assault, Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, is overwhelmed. Shifa’s shabby halls echoed Monday with the sounds of people screaming and the wail of ambulance sirens. Many of the wounded were being treated in hallways by harried doctors and nurses running on little sleep. The hospital was powered by generators after shelling damaged power lines.

Children among victims
Since Israel began a ground offensive Saturday, most of the dead and wounded arriving at Shifa are civilians, as Israel’s offensive shifts from airstrikes to artillery shelling and fighting close to densely populated areas. Israel says it is targeting only the Hamas militants who control Gaza in an attempt to halt seven years of rocket fire at Israeli communities. But the 550 Palestinians who have been killed include at least 200 civilians, according to Dr. Moaiya Hassanein of the Gaza Health Ministry. On Monday, 20 children between the ages of 2 and 15 were killed, he said. Since the military offensive began Dec. 27, three Israeli civilians and two soldiers have been killed.

By The Associated Press

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