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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samy Magdy and Lee Keath

As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died

When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan Younis and watched the streaks of missiles light up the night before pounding the city. A Palestinian surgeon next to him gasped, “Oh no. Oh no.”

After two months of ceasefire, the horror of Israeli bombardment was back. The veteran surgeon told the visiting doctor, Sakib Rokafiya, they’d better head to the emergency ward.

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