Patients lie on cold, bloodstained floors in hospitals filled to overflowing. Some scream in pain, but others lie silently, deathly white, too weak even to cry out, reports BSS.
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have descended into chaos since the resumption of the war between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.
After eight weeks of war, interrupted only by one seven-day pause that ended on Friday, the doctors are exhausted.
Fuel reserves have almost run dry because of Israel's blockade of the territory, so doctors are forced to choose when and where across their hospitals to run generators.
According to the United Nations, not a single hospital in the territory's north can currently operate on patients.
The most seriously wounded are transferred daily to the south by convoys organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
But even there, the UN says, the 12 remaining hospitals are only "partially functional".
Abdelkarim Abu Warda and his nine-year-old daughter Huda have just arrived at Deir al-Balah Hospital aboard one of the ICRC convoys.
On Friday, after the truce ended, an Israeli strike hit their house in the vast Jabalia refugee camp in the north.
Huda was wounded in the head. "She had a brain haemorrhage -- she was placed on a ventilator," her father told AFP.
Since then, "she hasn't responded to anything", he says, lifting up the little girl's arms.
"She doesn't answer me any more," he repeats, sobbing.
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