Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian surgeon who went to Gaza last week to help its people cope with the latest Israeli onslaught. This is how he described the scenes in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital last night:

I heard the screech of two missiles and then a loud explosion. The false ceiling in the OR [operating room] fell. As I walked towards the side entrance of the OR department, I saw that the hospital itself was on fire and that it was directly hit. The wounded started stumbling towards us. I then ran to the emergency room where there were hundreds of very severely wounded and dead.

In an update on his Facebook page, Abu-Sittah blamed Israel for the mass killing at al-Ahli: “The Israeli government has been openly saying it was going to target hospitals for the last week and the world just stood by and did nothing.” Yet there has been no pause in the Israeli air offensive against Gaza, he reported: “This morning the bombing continued.”