Kamal Adwan nurse recounts Israeli raids that destroyed the Gaza hospital

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Shorouq al-Rantisi, 30, a nurse in Kamal Adwan Hospital’s laboratory department, was among the women taken from the hospital by the Israeli military, she has recounted the raid to Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid.

“We could hear the men being beaten and tortured. It was unbearable,” she says.

Then the searches started, she adds. “The soldiers were dragging the women by the head towards the search area,” al-Rantisi said. “[They] shouted at us, demanding we remove our headscarves. Those who refused were beaten badly.”

Israel’s raid merely compounded “the global silence and abandonment” Palestinians in Gaza have been faced with throughout more than a year of relentless Israeli attacks that killed more than 45,000 people, al-Rantisi said.

“Over 60 days of relentless shelling — quadcopters, artillery, and targeted strikes on generators.”

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