Blood and body bits all across the place... Physicians recount the terrifying night following an Israeli bombing of a hospital.

 Doctors described with great astonishment the moment of horror they experienced in the Baptist Hospital, which Israel bombed without mercy, committing one of the largest massacres in the Gaza Strip since the start of its war on it 11 days ago.

On the evening of the 11th day of its war on Gaza, the Israeli army bombed the Baptist Hospital, where thousands of displaced people are taking refuge as a safe place protected by international laws. The bombing left more than 500 martyrs and hundreds injured.

Doctors who were in this hospital recounted scenes from that night of terror, including Doctor Fadel Naeem, head of the orthopedic surgery department at the Baptist Hospital, who had just finished performing surgery when he heard a huge explosion, and his department was filled with people screaming for help.

Naeem said, "People entered the operating department screaming, 'Help us, join us, there are dead and wounded in the hospital.'" He added, "We tried to help those who could be helped, but the number was much greater than the hospital's limited staff could help people."

In turn, British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta says that the hospital was shaking all day due to the bombing. He said that he heard a missile before a huge explosion, and then the ceiling of the operating room collapsed on top of him and the rest of the medical staff.

In the courtyard, Abu Sitta saw corpses and limbs everywhere. He treated a man whose legs were amputated and said that the medical system in Gaza has collapsed and doctors are scrambling to obtain basic resources. "We are exhausted. The number of patients is constantly increasing," he said.

For his part, Doctor Muhammad Al-Naya says that the hospital was considered a safe place and a refuge for displaced people from neighboring places, adding that about 3,000 displaced people arrived in the hospital in the last few days.

He continued, "Everyone is looking for security and safety and they thought that the hospital was safe, but the hand of Israeli treachery exceeded everything and targeted innocent people." Al-Naya added, "The free world must stand up to this crime and hold Israel accountable."

For today, the 12th, Israel continues to launch intensive raids on homes and civilian facilities in Gaza, cutting off water, electricity, food, and medicine supplies to the Strip, which sparked local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe, in parallel with intense Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns in the West Bank.

The occupation's continuous bombing of Gaza has so far left more than 3,200 martyrs and 12,500 wounded, the majority of whom are children and women, while the Palestinian resistance responded by bombing Tel Aviv and Ashkelon as part of its Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Source: Al Jazeera + Agencies