Morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflows as Israeli attacks intensify

'The body bags started and just kept coming and coming and now it’s a graveyard' Abu Elias Shobaki, a nurse at Shifa, said of the car park.

Wounded children are taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City (Ali Mahmoud/AP)

The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed on Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them, on the sixth day of Israel’s heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people.

With scores of Palestinians killed each day in the Israeli onslaught after an unprecedented Hamas attack, medics in the besieged enclave said they ran out of places to put remains pulled from the latest strikes or recovered from under the ruins of demolished buildings.