Gaza City, Gaza -Yousef Abu Sakran was coming out with his son and wife Kured, Iman, in a store room at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital when the sounds of the people running and screaming woke him up.
He entered the hospital courtyard long before Sunday dawn to ask what was happening, but did not find a clear answer, just a vague news that the Israeli army had made calls to the people who lived in the hospital, demanding that he expand the expansion.
The 29 -year -old father reacted instantly. He picked up his five -year -old son, Mohammad, and he and Iman ran towards the door.
Mohammad has serious injuries in his body, including third grade burns on the back and legs, but Yousef had to continue running with him.
“I took my son, whose body was burned, and running while he shouted,” said Yousef. “His back was bleeding, his wounds were bleeding, and he was shouting in agony.
“[So many people’s] The injuries reopened from the sudden movement. I saw a girl’s family with column injuries who tried to pull her bed, but was trapped in the debris.
“Just seconds after we left the hospital, it was beaten by two missiles that shook the whole place. I told my wife:” Imagine if we had been a minute later. We would be dead. “
Where to go with a Kured child?
Yousef and his wife were on the street with everyone else from the hospital.
“They were around 2 am, and I had no idea to take my son of injuries. I had pain and bleeding. There were no clinics or hospitals, and the store where we live is very far and inappropriate for their condition.”
Mohammad had been sworn in an Israeli air strike in a block of houses in the Shujayea de Gaza neighborhood, which killed more than 20 people and wounded diets.
An hour after the hospital was bombarded, Yousef and his wife decided that there was nothing to do apart from taking Mohammad to Al-Ahli.
“The place was black and stamping to gunpowder and dust. I went to the surgery building at the other end of the hospital, where I found a nurse who played the pity in the condition of Mohammad, treated her wounds and admitted it.”
Bombing a hospital like this, said Yousef, is a stain in the conscience of humanity.
“Bombard our houses on our heads and then bombard hospitals while patients and injured are inside. Where are we supposed to go?
“Isn’t all this complaint and suffering enough?”
Crawling out of danger
Suhaib Hamed, 20, was a pye in another store room, right next to the emergency building of the hospital, which was beaten.
Hamed was injured when he went to look for flour for his hungry family on February 29, 2024, a day known as the “Flour massacre”, the Israel Gate killed 109 Palestinians and doses wounded while waiting for food aid.
Israeli tanks shot him in his leg, damaging his bones and tissue to the point that he needed metal implants and has bone in the orthopedic department since then.
“My brother, who usually stays with me, was there. I don’t know how I managed to stop in my Kured leg, grab my barley and flee,” Suhaib told Al Jazeera as he left the dedicated surgery and was left out of breath.
“I forgot my pain because either what I saw around me. Everyone were screaming of horror and fear, just trying to survive. He felt like the day of judgment.”
Suhaib also managed to leave the hospital minutes before two Israeli missiles landed.
“My Lay couldn’t handle it anymore, and my wound reopened and began to bleed again.”
He could not continue walking, so he stopped and called his brother, who came and supported him to his house in the neighborhood of Zeitoun, half an hour walking through a healthy person on unconnected roads.
The pain in the leg kept Suhaib, but was also worried that the hospital was forced to close.
“I stay in the hospital [for more than a year] Due to my condition, “he said. Suhaib has a medical derivation to travel in Gaza to receive treatment, but has been waiting to leave for a year.
“Isn’t the closure and prohibition of our trip enough?
Worsen a catastrophic situation
The Israeli strike against Al-Ahli has exacerbated a catastrophic situation of Gaza for the Gaza health system, which has collapsed as Israeli bombings and a blockade about medications, medical and combustible supplies continue.
In the panic that occurred because Israel did not give the hospital staff even the minimum time to evacuate patients, a child told Al Jazeera due to the lack of oxygen, Fadel Naeem, director of AL-AHLI, Al Jazeera.
Israel destroyed the vital departments of emergency, radiology, laboratory and central pharmacy, the doctor continued.
“We will need a week or months to resume operations,” he said. “This hospital is a service center and includes all essential facilities, including the only machine to explore CT available.
“The fate of patients and wounded is now unknown. We will have to distribute them to other hospitals, but no hospital is equipped to provide complete services.”