"Every corner in the hospital was busy. The medical staff were working very hard to save lives." -Dr. Mohammad Abu Mughaiseb, MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator, Gaza. Help us respond in Gaza and around the world. Rush Support.

“I have never seen a mass casualty event like [it]. Every corner in the hospital was busy. Every space was occupied by the injured or bodies of the dead,” says Dr. Mohammad Abu Mughaiseb, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deputy medical coordinator in Nasser Hospital, Gaza.

On the morning of July 13, Israeli forces’ airstrikes hit an area in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, where displaced civilians were sheltering in the designated safe zone. The number of those killed remains to be confirmed, and hundreds were injured. MSF teams at Nasser Hospital, including our staff in the maternity ward, supported the mass casualty response, treating over 100 patients.

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MSF staff reported feeling the ground and the building shake when the airstrikes began. Within minutes of the attack, ambulances started arriving at Nasser Hospital, and the team launched a mass casualty plan.

“Because we don’t usually receive trauma patients in the maternity and pediatric wards, we were not prepared for this [mass casualty incident]. But the emergency department was so full and overwhelmed that the patients had nowhere else to go,” says Amy Kit-Mei Low, nurse and MSF Project Medical Referent at Nasser Hospital. “We are over capacity and the quality of care is going down due to the lack of supplies and space. How do you keep the intravenous line clean? How do you do all this if you have no gloves or chlorine? The situation [on Saturday] was horrific."

MSF reiterates our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire now.

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