Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, once the fulcrum of Gaza’s health system and now an emblem of its destruction, stood in ruins on Sunday, as if a tsunami had surged through it followed by a tornado.
The emergency department was a tidy, off-white building until Israeli troops returned there in March.
Two weeks later, it was missing most of its facade, scorched with soot, and punctured with hundreds of bullets and shells.
The hospital was the largest in Gaza, one of its biggest employers and a shelter for thousands of Gazans during war.
When I returned this week, the place was disfigured almost beyond recognition after a 12-day battle between Israeli soldiers and Gazan gunmen and an earlier raid by the Israeli military.
Persons:
—, Covid
Organizations:
Shifa
Locations:
Gaza City, Gaza