RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Amer Muqayyad can still remember how his wounds bled for more than an hour at the Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. He was not given a chance to be treated by the doctors.
“I was injured by an Israeli rocket fragment during the Rafah massacre that occurred during the Israeli war on Gaza [in August 2014]," Muqayyad, 24, told Al-Monitor. "Because the Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital — which is the only hospital in the city — was crowded with wounded and martyrs, I continued to bleed for an hour before a nurse hastily treated me and asked me to leave the hospital immediately to make room for other patients.”