Dr. Muneer al-Bursh, the director general of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, reported that the specialized pediatric facility was struck three times in rapid succession, leaving 80 patients trapped in separate departments, including four children in pediatric intensive care and eight newborns in neonatal care.

“It is a scene where patients’ breaths mingle with the roar of explosions, and mothers’ cries with the whistle of rockets […] Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital, once a house of healing, has today become a field of death,” al-Bursh said.

On Tuesday, 16 September, Dr. Ali Tahrawi, a physician in a hospital in central Gaza, uploaded a video to his Instagram showing a toddler who was brought in after an airstrike, her face blackened from burns and her torso ripped apart, with her internal organs spilling out.

Tahrawi stands beside the little girl, in shock, not saying a word, while he and the hospital staff try to dress her gaping wound and watch her take her last, gasping breath.

“Seventeen hours into my exhausting shift, carrying the weight of unbearable stories; families escaping death in the north, only to face more death here, and others arriving with injuries that could not be treated there,” Tahrawi wrote on Instagram.

“I finally lay down to rest my back. But then came another airstrike. Minutes later, the ambulances arrived with the wounded. Among them was this girl. I saw her heart stop beating, and I feel mine will stop soon.”

“My message to the world is simple: if we are left to burn in this hell alone, then humanity itself has already died. This world is no longer human. And the silence that allowed all of this will haunt you forever.”

Activist and social media creator Tommy Marcus, who runs the account Quentin Quarantino and is on board one of the dozens of boats in the Global Sumud flotilla on their way to Gaza, said that he got in touch with Tahrawi to ask about the girl’s name — something many people asked about on social media.

Tahrwawi told him that the girl’s parents and baby brother were all killed in the airstrike, leaving no one alive to tell the physicians her name.

Fuck my life.