katzenberger 🇺🇦<p>»Yesterday evening (15 December), an <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>i military <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/airstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airstrike</span></a> hit a United Nations-run <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> sheltering Palestinian <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilians</span></a> driven from their homes in Khan Younis, southern <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. The attack happened in the so-called ‘humanitarian safe zone’ of al-Mawasi, just metres from Nasser <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Hospital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hospital</span></a>, one of the last partially-functioning hospitals left in Gaza. […]</p><p>A consultant in intensive care and emergency medicine with the EMT, who was working in the emergency department, said: “We received a huge number of <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/casualties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>casualties</span></a>. The emergency department was full of <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elderly</span></a> patients with severe injuries. I lost count of the number of patients that came in with injuries I’ve never seen in my entire career. I counted at least 18 <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/victims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victims</span></a> who died in the emergency department, of these there were 12 <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> under the age of 12 years old.” […]</p><p>A vascular surgeon with the MAP and IRC EMT said: “It was beyond imagination and beyond description. In minutes the A&E was flooded with casualties. All the casualties I saw were women, teenagers or children below the age of 10.”«</p><p>Content Warning: the linked articles mentions specific and very severe injuries of toddlers.</p><p><a href="https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1676-ainjuries-iave-never-seen-in-my-entire-careera-a-israeli-military-attack-on-un-run-school-a-amassacrea-of-civilians-reports-map-doctors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1</span><span class="invisible">676-ainjuries-iave-never-seen-in-my-entire-careera-a-israeli-military-attack-on-un-run-school-a-amassacrea-of-civilians-reports-map-doctors</span></a></p>