'We tried to save whoever could be saved': Doctors recount horror of Gaza hospital blast

Blood stained the walls and the ground in what was normally a peaceful place that helped patients recover

People gather at the site of the hospital in central Gaza on Wednesday in the aftermath of the overnight blast there. Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images

The head of orthopaedic surgery at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza, Fadel Naim, had just finished a procedure when he heard a huge explosion and his department filled with people screaming for help.

"People came running into the surgery department screaming 'help us, help us, there are people killed and wounded inside the hospital'," he said. He found the hospital full of dismembered bodies and wounded people.