© Reuters/Ibraheem Abu MustafaMedics carry a wounded man during a protest, demanding Palestinians' right to return to their homeland, at the fence between Israel and Gaza on August 31, 2018.
As a doctor living and working in Gaza all my life, I thought I had seen it all. I felt I knew the limits of what Gaza can endure
But the last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza. And I have lived and worked through three wars: in 2008, 2012 and 2014.
The human suffering and devastation I saw over the past few months have reached another height. The shocking volume of wounded has been overwhelming.
I will never forget Monday, May 14. In the span of 24 hours, the local health authorities recorded a total of 2,271 wounded, including 1,359 people injured by live ammunition. I was on shift that day with the surgical team of al-Aqsa hospital, one of the main hospitals in Gaza.
At 3pm we started receiving the first wounded from the demonstration. More than 300 arrived though the doors in less than four hours. I had never seen so many patients in my life.
Hundreds were lining up to get into the operating theatre; the corridors were full; everyone was crying, shouting and bleeding.
No matter how hard we worked, we could not cope with the huge number of injured. It was too much. Gunshot after gunshot, our team worked for 50 hours straight trying to save lives.
It brought back the memories of the 2014 war. But really, nothing could have prepared us for what we saw on May 14. And what we are still seeing today.
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