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Witnesses said the strike happened at about 01:15 local time on Monday (23:15 BST on Sunday).<\/p>\n
It hit an area between buildings filled with makeshift shelters, next to an outdoor outpatient waiting area that had no one there at night, Anna Halford, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza who was not at the hospital during the strike, said in a phone call from Deir al-Balah.<\/p>\n
Hiba Radi, a mother who was living in a tent behind the hospital, told a BBC freelancer in Gaza she woke up to the sound of \u201cexplosions and fires erupting around the tents\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were explosions everywhere, and we were shocked at whether this was gas or weapons,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the worst scenes we’ve witnessed and lived through,” she added. “We\u2019ve never seen destruction like this before. It\u2019s hard, really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atia Darwish, a photographer who recorded some of the verified videos, told the BBC it was a \u201cbig shock\u201d and he was \u201cunable to do anything\u201d watching people burn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so broken down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Um Yaser Abdel Hamid Daher, who also lives at the hospital, told the BBC \u201cwe’ve seen so many people burning that we started feeling like we might burn like them\u201d.<\/p>\n
The injured included her son, and his wife and children. Her granddaughter Lina, 11, who had shrapnel in her hand and leg injuries, said she had heard people screaming.<\/p>\n
\u201dOur neighbour\u2019s daughter was injured in her head and her dad was killed. And our other neighbours were killed. The people next to us tore down the tent to get us out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her grandmother said the family \u201clost their tent and everything they had; they have nothing left\u201d.<\/p>\n
The health ministry reported on Monday that more than 40 people were injured and four killed.<\/p>\n
MSF on Tuesday shared a higher toll, saying five people had died, their bodies burned by the time they were recovered, and 65 injured.<\/p>\n
Forty of the injured – 22 men, eight women and 10 children – stayed at al-Aqsa. The others were transferred to different hospitals, with eight going to a specialist burns unit.<\/p>\n
Ms Halford said her colleagues were treating burns victims \u201dwho will almost certainly not survive”, saying \u201cthere is very little you can do for burn victims of that severity\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou come home with the smell of it on your clothes. It’s a viscerally affecting experience. It stays with you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s strike was the seventh on the hospital site since March, and the third in two weeks, Ms Halford said.<\/p>\n
When she arrived at the hospital after the most recent hit, she said she found people picking through twisted metal and burned debris to salvage any belongings.<\/p>\n
Another mother the BBC spoke to whose children suffered burns injuries had already evacuated from north Gaza – and now has nothing.<\/p>\n
The acting chief of the UN\u2019s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the strike occurred in an area where north Gaza residents had been told to relocate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere really is no safe place in Gaza for people to go,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Haneen Abdeen<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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