It is 3 a.m. here in Israel, which is even at this late hour dealing with repercussions

of a human tragedy on a terrible, terrible scale, the massive explosion at a hospital in

Gaza City.

We should say at the outset, the pictures are as horrible as the incident itself.

We want to show you a new video just moments after the blast, hundreds are believed dead.

We're talking about men, women, and children, civilians.

Or it may still be buried in rubble at the El Ali Baptist Hospital.

According to the Hamas-Run Palestinian Health Ministry, the hospital not only had patients

and doctors and nurses inside, but thousands of displaced people outside who had been seeking

shelter there displaced from the bombings that had been going on in Gaza, compounding

the loss of life.

We cannot independently confirm how many people were killed in this blast, but the pictures

are sick and one photojournalist who has witnessed many moments like this telling the New

York Times, quote, there were so many bodies I couldn't even photograph.

Many, many wounded people, women, children were taken to El Shifa Hospital nearby.

Here you see a child and then an adult being taken from an ambulance.

The number of dead and wounded was so great, there was almost no room for the medics.

Another reporter who witnessed the initial wave of casualties telling the Times, quote,

their bodies are now in the courtyard, the more freezer is full, the more extension is

full, and now they are storing the bodies in the area designated for journalists.

Hamas officials are blaming Israel for the blast.

Israel categorically denies that, saying a failed rocket launch by the group Islamic

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