‘Burned and charred’ bodies of father and son could not be separated

Javed Ali, the director of emergency response in Gaza for International Medical Corps, described what he saw following the Israeli attack on a tent camp for civilians sheltering in Rafah that killed 45 people, mostly women and children.

“With this loud air strike that we heard, we just rushed to the hospital and in about five minutes or so after arrival we started seeing ambulances coming in. I think in total we had about 75 patients. Out of those 75, 25 were really critical,” Ali said in a video interview.

“I saw the dead body of a father who was basically holding his child perhaps around three years of age. They were burned and charred. We couldn’t separate them. So we had to put both of them together in a body bag,” he said.

“That was very, very hard.”