DEATH TO ZIONISM

Israeli Bombs inflict more pain on Gaza hospital
Omar Karmi, Foreign Correspondent
February 18. 2009 9:30AM UAE

GAZA CITY // Tareq Dardas remains haunted by the night he, three other doctors, eight nurses and 15 patients thought might be their last.“You can’t imagine what a horrible night that was,” said the general practitioner, who trained eight years in Pakistan and now works at Gaza’s Al Wafa Hospital. “I’ve never been so miserable.”Dr Dardas and his colleagues found themselves pinned down in their hospital, east of Gaza City and near the Israeli border, on the night of Jan 15 by heavy Israeli bombardment for which Dr Dardas said he could think of no explanation. No one was killed or injured in the bombardment, but the hospital sustained significant damage and staff had to evacuate the hospital by carrying patients out in bed sheets when ambulances finally arrived after 10am the next day.
Behind them they left a building with all its windows shattered and a gaping hole in one wall on the second floor, caused by what staff believe was a tank shell. The shell struck just where the large metal letters in the word ‘hospital’ on that side of the building were hung, leaving only the last three. Inside, medical equipment worth US$250,000 (Dh918,000) was destroyed.

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