Hospital of horror

Gaza docs ‘lost control’ facing waves of injured

-  SIMON MURPHY

CRADLED at a hospital in Gaza, a wounded child's face is caked in the blood of war.

As Israel's bombardment of the Palestinian territory continued yesterday, a director at the hospital where the youngster was treated admitted his team was overwhelmed by casualties.

Nahed Abu Taima of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said: "We lost control in the face of the large number of injured people arriving.

"With the Israeli bombing of several areas in Khan Younis, we are forced to treat the injured on the ground and in the corridors of the departments in light of the lack of medical supplies.