rof Nick Maynard was operating on a patient with abdomen and chest bomb injuries when an Israeli missile struck the al-Aqsa hospital’s intensive care unit in the adjacent building, forcing his medical emergency team to withdraw from
The IDF, which has been approached for comment, has previously said that Hamas “systematically” uses hospitals and medical centres to conduct terror activities. The UN condemned the destruction and killing at the hospital, with health workers and patients among those reportedly killed. “At this point, we are no longer discussing availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of healthcare received in dignity, but the annihilation of any infrastructure capable of providing basic first aid,” the UN human rights office said.
“To be within such close proximity to fire and airstrikes every second of every day was incredibly frightening and to know that the only thing that was keeping us safe was that our location had been supposedly deconflicted with the Israeli military, that was terrifying, frankly.” Dr Deborah Carrington, an obstetrician who works in Oxford and travelled to Gaza with MAP, described an overwhelmed al-Aqsa hospital with “huge” numbers of child casualties from bombings and traumatic injuries. During their time there, she and Smith said a bullet was shot through into the intensive care unit, though neither were present at the time.