Almost 190 anti-Semitic hate incidents on Jewish people in Greater Manchester have been reported since the Hamas attack on Israel, according to a charity.
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A woman has described the horror of seeing people's bodies piled up like "meat" during the suspected Israeli air strike at a Gaza hospital this evening.
The mum of three, who fears being identified in case of reprisals, had just put her three daughters to bed when she heard the almighty blast that "was different from anything I had heard before."
Videos from the scene of the attack at the Christian-run al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, better known as Al-Ma’amadani, showed a Baptist idyll obliterated. Up to 500 people have been killed. Video footage has emerged of the attacks but have been deemed too gruesome to publish.
Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip, prompting a number of families to take refuge at the hospital, hoping they would be safe from the air strikes.
The grounds are now strewn with torn bodies, many of them young children, reports the Mirror. The lawn is littered with school backpacks, blankets and toys.
The woman, who worked at the hospital throughout the Covid pandemic, said: "There were bombs every second and we thought no, it's not going to be the hospital. But they actually bombed the hospital. I was blown from the window. I was like blown a couple of metres away..."
As she spoke with reporters over the phone, she was interrupted as another "huge flash" went off. She continued: "The hospital blast was different from anything before. We hear bombings around us all the time, but this one was huge. I thought my house was blown into pieces. I was blown backwards because of the blast radius that basically came through my windows."
There were patients including people on gurneys who were instantly killed in the attack. It came 10 days after
Almost 190 anti-Semitic hate incidents on Jewish people in Greater Manchester have been reported since the Hamas attack on Israel, according to a charity.
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