'It's the Stuff of Nightmares' Scenes from Inside a Gaza Hospital
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
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By Palestinian officials' tally - more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and about one in every 40 people there have been wounded in just three months.
Israel's military is now pushing deeper into central Gaza. The World Health Organization says the most important hospital there is al-Aqsa Hospital.
American pediatrician Seema Jilani, spent two weeks working at the al-Aqsa hospital there. She recorded voice memos about what she saw and talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Very few people are allowed to enter Gaza right now. |
| 0:09.4 | Dr. Seima Jalani, an American, is one of them. She spent two weeks working at a hospital there and she saw horrors. |
| 0:17.4 | We want to warn you that the descriptions you'll hear in this episode include graphic |
| 0:21.1 | descriptions of violence and suffering. |
| 0:23.0 | It's just massively crowded. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm stepping in blood. |
| 0:28.0 | Dr. Gilani recorded voice memos while she was treating patients in Gaza. |
| 0:32.0 | I guess you can't bring the mom in right now. |
| 0:35.0 | It's been nearly a hundred days since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel, |
| 0:41.0 | which prompted Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza. |
| 0:44.0 | Israel says it aims to destroy Hamas. |
| 0:47.0 | By Palestinian officials tally, more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and about one and every 40 people there have been wounded |
| 0:56.0 | in just three months. Israel's military is now pushing deeper into Central Gaza, and says |
| 1:01.9 | Hamas uses hospitals as command centers. |
| 1:05.0 | The World Health Organization says the most important hospital in Central Gaza is Al-Axa. |
| 1:11.0 | I've seen a lot and I never compare conflicts but that's got to be the most |
| 1:18.1 | nightmarish thing I've ever seen and the most one of the most inhumane and cruel things I'll ever see |
| 1:27.3 | Dr. Gilani is talking there about one young patient in the emergency room at |
| 1:31.5 | Al-Oxa an 11-year-old girl who was severely burned in an explosive |
| 1:35.7 | blast. |
| 1:36.7 | To look at her was an infinite committee in partnership with medical aid for Palestinians bearing witness to agony again and again. |
| 1:55.6 | Children lying on the ground, double amputation on one child, and there are no bags available so people are literally just on the ground seeking |
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