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The cease-fire is over, but not before it offered a glimpse of the war’s horrors to Palestinians in Gaza and people around the world.

As residents used the fragile truce to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction, a particularly disturbing scene emerged.

Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds. A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.

In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City. The hospital’s staff and critically ill patients were forced to evacuate in early November as the Israeli military focused its ground assault on the city, with hospitals under fire.

NBC News obtained raw footage from the channel and has reviewed its contents.

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. I can't fathom most of what this has been like for people in Gaza. I also can't imagine just dead ass leaving a baby behind.* I have to imagine they thought they'd be back soon or that someone else was coming, or the babies were already dead and there were no body bags or time. This is painful to think about.

*Not a criticism, I'm awake when I shouldn't be, words am hard, can't think of a better way to frame it.

[-] livus@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@conditional_soup these were not ordinary babies that you can just carry around, even if you're not under sniper fire and trying to evacuate a bunch of other wounded kids. Premies are tiny and vulnerable. They were dying from lack of oxygen.

The staff probably hoped that the forces who took over the hospital would have mercy on these babies.

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