It was a chaotic scene at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday as Dr. Nada Abu Al-Rub walked through the halls tending to patients.
One of them, a little boy, had his leg amputated and suffered from burns on his whole body after a strike went off near where he and his brother were walking. Al-Rub tended to his wounds and, with the last piece of gauze in the department and some salt water, cleaned and wrapped his burns.
She said, at that point, the department had no gauze left at all.
She walked down another hallway where steel beds — some without mattresses — lined the walls, with patients and their families waiting to be seen by one of the remaining medical staff at the
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