On Tuesday, giggling children shouted, clapped and sang beside swings and a slide in the courtyard of al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, captured on video as medical staff tried to distract them from airstrikes pounding their city.
The next morning, just a few metres away, a grim faced man climbed on to a shattered roof to retrieve the lacerated remains of a tiny infant, one of the youngest victims of a devastating blast that turned a place of healing into a slaughterhouse.
