‘Our neighbours burned alive’: The battle of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

‘Our neighbours burned alive’: The battle of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

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Deir el-Balah, Gaza, Palestine – Amani Madi still can’t think she and her household endured the battle that hit Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the middle of the night.

In the open area where the attack on displaced individuals’s campingtents took location early on Monday, the odor of smoke dominates, and burned cans and food are spread on the ground amongst charred blankets and clothing.

People roam back and forth. Most of them utilized to live in the campingtents, and they are attempting to discover anything left behind by the blaze that damaged their lightweight homes.

Bodies on fire as they ran

The attack tore through the makeshift camp set up by displaced individuals in the healthcenter’s yard, killing at least 4 individuals and hurting at least 40.

Madi shows the wound on her son Ahmed's stomach where shrapnel entered but doctors were not able to remove it because Gaza medical facilities have been decimated by Israel
Madi reveals her boy Ahmed’s injury where shrapnel wentinto his body, however physicians were not able to eliminate it since Gaza’s medical centers haveactually been annihilated by Israeli attacks [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

“It was 1: 10am when a huge surge shook whatever,” Madi, a 37-year-old mom of 6, remembers as she sits in the stays of her burned campingtent.

“I looked out and saw flames feastingon the campingtents next to ours,” Madi states. “My hubby and I brought the kids and ran towards the emergencysituation structure.

“At the entryway, I saw my five-year-old boy, who was yelling, was bleeding. I took him to the medicalprofessionals to find that he had shrapnel in his stomach.”

The medicalprofessionals were able to plaster Ahmed up however had to leave the shrapnel where it had struck him, describing to Madi that it would need fragile surgicaltreatment to getridof, a surgicaltreatment that is not possible provided the severely harmed Gaza medical sector.

A shot of the destruction caused when Israel bombed a displaced people's camp in Deir el-Balah, Gaza. The camp was in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital
The damage triggered when Israel bombed a displaced individuals’s camp in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Many Palestinians displaced several times end up at schools and healthcenters, setting up campingtents onceagain and onceagain, utilizing whatever products they can discover, clustering close together due to a absence of area.

Israel’s bombs spread fire through the crowded campingtents within minutes as Civil Defence employees hadahardtime to put it out with what minimal abilities they had.

“People – females, guys and kids – were running away from the dispersing fire, shrieking,” Madi states. “Some of them were still burning, their bodies on fire as they ran. Terrifying, dreadful, … astounding.

“Where are we expected to go? It’s almost winterseason. Is there no one to stop this holocaust versus us?”

Jamalat Wadi in the midst of the destruction left by Israel bombing a displacement camp in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital. On October 14, 2024
Jamalat Wadi sits amongst the damage left by Israel’s battle of a displacement camp in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on October 14, 2024 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Madi’s campingtent was next to Jamalat Wadi’s campingtent, which was almost at the centre of the battle.

Wadi, 43, states: “It was a wonder we endured, me and my 7 children.”

“I woke them up, shouting, as our flaming campingtent was falling on our heads.

“My neighbour, her boy and her hubby were burned to death. No one might conserve them,” she states, sobbing bitterly.

Like numerous others, Wadi hasactually been required to getaway various times, beginning in Shujayea, then to Rafah, Nuseirat and Khan Younis before lookingfor haven at Al-Aqsa Hospital.

“Now we’re in the streets onceagain, however I won’t stay here after this. There’s no

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