At 5 a.m today, I heard a big blast nearby. When I got to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the morning, I went straight to the emergency room and there were several severely injured patients.

In the red area, I saw three women with severe injuries.

One was totally in shock due to a lot of bleeding, and also a head injury and injury to her leg. There was another woman with a head injury, and yet another one with a lung injury. And I also saw three children who were severely injured.
It turned out that there were 77 patients admitted to the emergency department in Al-Aqsa Hospital today, [including] 31 children, and 15 people were killed.

I must say I was pretty shocked to see what was going on. This was an attack deliberately on civilians. This is totally unacceptable.

What is going on? Do we really call this a ceasefire? Can you have a ceasefire and then you attack civilians and then you say you have—again—a ceasefire? What kind of warfare is this? It’s totally, totally unacceptable.
I really have a problem understanding that it is possible to bomb civilians this way, because there is no doubt this is an attack on civilians. We had to transfer a lot of patients from Al-Aqsa Hospital to field hospitals.

I know that MSF’s field hospital received some former patients from Al-Aqsa because the capacity here was not sufficient to take care of the patients. So they were stabilized and given blood, and then they were referred to some of the other field hospitals.

You get really angry when you see this going on.