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Eyewitness: Hospital staff traumatized by the number of body parts recovered from the explosion site

By Alex Crawford, special correspondent in Lebanon

Doctors at one of Sidon’s main government hospitals have told us about the large number of body parts they dealt with after Israeli airstrikes leveled two large apartment blocks.

The hospital’s managing director, Ahmad Al Samadi, told us that his staff were deeply traumatized after recovering so many body parts from the explosion site in the nearby village of Ain El Delb

One of the survivors, 19-year-old Zeynab, was among those pulled out alive from the rubble.

She suffered multiple broken bones after parts of the building collapsed on her.

Her shoulder is broken in two places, while her left hip and one of her legs are shattered.

She described how she and her sister ran from their home after the first Israeli airstrike, only to be hit by a second and third bombs.

“I lost consciousness,” she said. “I was with my younger sister, who was screaming a lot.”

“The Israelis have already killed hundreds of civilians,” the teenager said.

“They have the technology to kill whoever they want and we are not talking about dozens of people, which is still unacceptable, but now they have killed hundreds. And we are civilians.”

Zeynab and her family, like many in the two blocks, had moved in just a week ago after fleeing the bombings further south in Nabatea.

The Lebanese Health Ministry has announced the latest death toll with 45 dead and 70 injured in one of the deadliest attacks in Lebanon since October.