Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who is volunteering at Shifa, treats a Palestinian girl at the emergency room

The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying... All sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12 to 24‑hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment in Shifa for the last four months). They care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. Humans!

Now, once more treated like animals by “the most moral army in the world” [sic!].

My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless.

My closeness to the Palestinian “sumud” [steadfastness] gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace – but we cannot afford that, nor can they.

Ashy grey faces – Oh no! not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding. We still have lakes of blood on the floor in the emergency room, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out – oh – the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes, cannulas – the leftovers from death – all taken away... to be prepared again, to be repeated all over.

More than 100 cases came to Shifa in the last 24 hours. Enough for a large well-trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating-room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday’s hospitals. But they do not complain, these heroes.

They get on with it, like warriors, enormous, resolute.

And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears flow, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and fear. This is not happening!

And then the orchestra of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again. Just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats down on the shores, the roaring F-16, the sickening drones (Arabic zennanis, the “hummers”), and the Apaches. So much made by and paid for by the US.

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(AP Photo/Eyad Baba) AP ASHKELON, ISRAEL - JULY 22: The grandfather of Israeli soldier Jordan Bensimon cries over his casket during his funeral on July 22, 2014 in Ashkelon, Israel. Bensimon was 22 and originally from France. Israel has lost 27 soldiers since the beginning of operation "Protective Edge." Gaza has had more than 500 people killed, 75% of whom are civilian, the UN has said. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Getty Images Palestinian protesters run from tear gas thrown by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the Israeli military action in Gaza, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh) AP Two babies areplaced between dolls covered with red paint during a demonstration, most of them women and children, against Israel's military offensive in Gaza, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. Several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters demanded a halt to military action in Gaza. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) AP NEW YORK, NY - JULY 22: Riyad H. Mansour, Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, holds up a picture from the Israeli operation in Gaza during a Security Council meeting at the UN on July 22, 2014 in New York City. The Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip is entering the third week with 27 Israeli's dead and over 500 people killed in Gaza, the vast majority being civilians. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images) Getty Images SDEROT, ISRAEL - JULY 22: Israeli soldiers stand near their tank while smoke due to airstrikes and shelling rises from Gaza on July 22, 2014 near Sderot, Israel. As operation "Protective Edge" goes into it's third week, the death toll continues to mount, including 27 Israeli soldiers and over 500 people in Gaza, the vast majority of whom are civilians. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Getty Images TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JULY 22: (ISRAEL OUT) Secretary General of The United Nations Ban Ki- Moon (L) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after a press conference on July 22, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel. As operation 'Protective Edge' enters the third week, death tolls continues to mount, with 27 Israeli soldiers dead and over 500 people killed in Gaza, the vast majority being civilians. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Getty Images Palestinians pray over the bodies of 17 members of the Abu Jamea family, killed by an Israeli strike at their house, during their funeral at the main mosque in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) AP Smoke rises as flames spread across buildings after Israeli strikes in the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. 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(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) AP The sky and the city are lit by Israeli forces' flares in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 18, 2014.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Smoke rises after an Israeli shelling at the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) AP A Palestinian places his hand on one of the five national flag-draped bodies of members of the al-Halaq immediate and extended family, killed Sunday by an Israeli strike at their house in Gaza City, during their funeral at a mosque, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Palestinians try to comfort Hassan al-Halaq, bottom left, weeping over the body of his wife Souad, 62, during a funeral for five members of the family, including also his daughter-in-law Samar, 29, and his grandsons, Kena, 5, and Sadji, killed Sunday by an Israeli strike at their house in Gaza City, Monday, July 21, 2014 (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Palestinians try to comfort Hassan al-Halaq, weeping over the graves of his wife Samar, 29, his mother Souad, 62, and his sons Kenan, 5, and Sadji, killed Sunday by an Israeli strike at their house in Gaza City, during their funeral, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP A Palestinian child walks on debris from a destroyed house, following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Palestinians pray at a mosque in front of the national flag-draped bodies of five members of the al-Halaq immediate and extended family, killed Sunday by an Israeli strike at their house in Gaza City, during their funeral at a mosque, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Protesters hold a banner during an anti Israel demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) AP Palestine Protest outside BBC Studios in Belfast. Credit: Kevin Scott Kevin Scott Palestine Protest outside BBC Studios in Belfast. Credit: Kevin Scott Kevin Scott Palestine protest outside BBC Studios in Belfast. Credit: Kevin Scott Kevin Scott Family members and friends of Israeli soldier Moshe Malko mourn and cry during his funeral on July 21, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Getty Images Family members and friends of Israeli soldier Moshe Malko mourn and cry during his funeral on July 21, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Getty Images Rachel Biton rallies with hundreds of Israeli supporters in Times Square on July 20, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images) Getty Images Israeli soldiers fire mortars from an armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli-Gaza border during operation "Protective Edge" on July 21, 2014 near Sderot, Israel (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Getty Images Palestinian hospital workers carry a body of one of the six members of the Gharabli family who were killed in an Israeli strike, at the Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) AP A Palestinian girl holds a poster that shows Palestinian kids who were killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, as she attends a demonstration against the Israeli war in Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) AP Lebanese and Palestinians hold up placards during a protest against the war in Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) AP A Palestinian girl holds placard as she attends a protest against the war in Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) AP Palestinian medics remove a dead body found under the rubbles of a home destroyed by an Israeli strike in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) AP A Palestinian woman runs as she flees Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Palestinians run for cover following an Israeli strike in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) AP A Palestinian man mourns over the body of his relative at the morgue of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) AP Palestinian medics carry a casualty as they run past a burning building in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Palestinians medic inspect the damage in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood that came under fire as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) AP Palestinian medics carry a man injured in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood that came under fire as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) AP Palestinian medics arrive in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Mourners pray over the fresh graves of members of the Abu Jarad family who were killed in an Israeli strike on their family house, following their funerals in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) AP The lifeless bodies of children lay at the morgue of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) AP Palestinians flee their homes in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, Sunday, July 20, 2014. 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(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl in the emergency room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) AP People take part in a protest march through Dublin city centre to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza and "justice and freedom" for Palestine PA Jack Aronson, 4, from Dublin, takes part in a protest march through Dublin city centre to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza and "justice and freedom" for Palestine. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday July 19, 2014. PA Israeli Honour Guard waiting for arrivel of the coffin of Sergeant Banaya Rubel during his funeral on July 20, 2014 in Holon, Israel. Sergeant Rubel was killed along with another IDF soldier on the twelfth day of operation 'Protective Edge,' when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from a tunnel dug from Gaza and engaged Israeli soldiers. 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Whatsapp Seen from Gaza City, smoke and flames rise from Gaza's electricity distribution company plant after it was hit by Israeli strikes in the Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip,Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Hours after Gaza's only power plant was hit, a tall column of thick black smoke continued to rise from a burning fuel tank there. The plants shutdown was bound to lead to further serious disruptions of the flow of electricity and water to Gazas 1.7 million people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Mr Obama – do you have a heart? I invite you – spend one night – just one night – with us in Shifa. I am convinced, 100 per cent, it would change history. Nobody with a heart and power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people.

But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another dahyia – onslaught on Gaza.

The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.

Please. Do what you can. This cannot continue.

Mads Gilbert is a volunteer surgeon at Al-Shifa in Gaza. Letter was written 20 July

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