Stressed medics recount Gaza horrors

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"In one long workday, medic Haitham Adgheir carried five corpses and saw six more at a Gaza hospital. An Israeli tank fired at his medical convoy, showering a driver with glass.

Colleagues have seen rats and dogs gnaw at corpses. They say they've pulled screaming survivors from the wreckage of Israeli airstrikes. Sometimes they can't get to the dead and wounded for days.

No one is more exposed to the carnage of Israel's two-week military offensive than Gaza's about 400 medics, including volunteers. They work long hours, get little sleep and risk their lives daily. Many have lost friends and family, but the overwhelming workload leaves no time to process what they've seen.

"These days, I wake up and the first thing I hear is the sound of an F16. Then I hear the ambulance siren, and that's my day," said Adgheir, 33. "My mind is like a video of body parts and injured people."

Since the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants began, 21 Palestinian medical staff have been killed, 30 have been injured and 11 ambulances have been damaged, according to the World Health Organisation."

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Red Cross will no longer escort Palestinian ambulances in Gaza

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"The international Red Cross says it is halting its service of escorting Palestinian ambulances in the Gaza Strip.

Red Cross spokesman Iyad Nasr says the decision was made after one of its ambulances came under fire. He says the incident occurred on Saturday during a three-hour lull declared by Israel to allow aid groups to do their work in the besieged area.

Nasr says his organization is still investigating the source of the fire."

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