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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bel Trew

Inside a southern Gaza hospital: Screaming orphaned children, amputee toddlers and the stench of rotting flesh

ICRC

Warning: this article contains distressing detail about people's injuries

A badly burned toddler screaming for the mother he doesn’t know is dead – and screaming because doctors do not have enough painkillers to relieve his suffering. An eight-year-old boy whose brain is exposed as bombing damaged parts of his skull. A teenage girl, her eye surgically removed, because every bone in her face is smashed. A three-year-old double amputee, whose severed limbs are laid out in a pink box beside him.

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