On Saturday, Israeli forces killed at least 275 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, most of them children and women, and wounding over seven hundred others. Footage shared by Palestinian journalists in Gaza shows hundreds of dead and wounded bodies lying strewn in the streets, with many still under the rubble or scattered in bombarded market alleys. “I collected my son in pieces,” said one bereaved mother.

Laboring under relentless bombardment, rescuers struggled to pull the dead and wounded to safety. “Dogs were eating people’s remains,” one eyewitness related. “We pulled out six martyrs, all torn-up children and women, we risked our lives to get them to the hospital.” Doctors Without Borders describes the scene at the overwhelmed hospital as a “nightmare” and “chaos.” Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, called the assault on Nuseirat an “appalling massacre of civilians” and said “the bloodbath must end immediately.”

It was the largest massacre in Gaza since last October. “Palestinians were slaughtered like animals,” said Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat. Entire families were massacred; the remains of ten children, all in pieces, were discovered inside a single room in Abo Karem Bhour’s house in the western part of Nuseirat. Many were executed while attempting to flee to safety.