Hospitals in Gaza's north are treating thousand of injured despite dwindling medical supplies. Warning: Graphic images.
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00:00 The morgue at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is overflowing.
00:05 Workers stack corpses in the parking lot outside.
00:10 Bodies are coming in faster than relatives can claim them,
00:13 and the hospital has run out of space for the remains.
00:17 Israel's bombing campaign on the territory of 2.3 million
00:22 has levelled entire neighbourhoods,
00:25 killing more than 2,000 Palestinians and wounding many more.
00:30 Some of the injured are being treated in hospital corridors.
00:36 Many of them are children.
00:40 A shortage of beds, medical supplies and power outages
00:44 have left hospitals in the north struggling to cope.
00:48 The World Health Organization says forcing the critically ill to move south
00:53 amounts to a death sentence.
00:56 It also says the evacuation order has left exhausted health workers
01:01 facing a choice between abandoning patients
01:05 or staying behind and putting their own lives at risk.
01:10 Israel's evacuation order means the clinic became a shelter
01:15 for more than 35,000 refugees.
01:20 Many have set up makeshift tents in the front of the building,
01:24 using carpets, curtains and whatever they could salvage from their homes.
01:30 We received messages on our phones, so we left quickly.
01:35 We came here to the hospital, but the place is more crowded than the schools.
01:40 Everyone came here. There are no bathrooms, no food, no water.
01:44 Nobody cares about us.
01:47 I was displaced with my family, 16 of us.
01:50 We go from place to place. May God help us.
01:54 The UN is calling on Israel to immediately reverse the evacuation order.
02:01 But for countless Gazans, it's already too late.
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