A pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera that the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … it looks like a slaughterhouse”.

“The images and videos that I’ve received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood … their limbs have been blown off,” Dr Tanya Haj-Hassa added. 

“That is what a massacre looks like. It means parents running around caring for their children who have blood running from their head trying to find a medic to treat them. But it’s so chaotic and there’s so many patients that is vastly outnumbering the healthcare ability to care for them.”