A BBC Arabic journalist, Adnan Elbursh, was reporting on the conditions inside a deteriorating Gaza hospital, which he discovered contained many of his friends.
“Today has been one of the most difficult days in my career. I have seen things I can never unsee,” he reported.
“Bodies lay everywhere. The injured scream for help. You can never forget the sounds,” he reported.
Among the dead and wounded, his cameraman had spotted his friend Malik, Elbursh said.
“Malik has managed to survive, but his family have not,” Elbursh said over footage of his tearful colleague.
Elbursh said bodies were being placed outside the hospital on the ground after the morgue reached capacity.
“You never want to become the story. Yet, in my city, I feel helpless as the dead were given no dignity and the injured are left in pain,” he said.