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Mohammed Fayeq ran towards the blast when he heard it.
A photojournalist with leading international news organisations including Reuters and AFP, he had been sleeping in a tent on the grounds of Nasser Hospital, one of the largest in Gaza.
The 29-year-old was awoken by an explosion that sounded like it had come from inside the medical centre, and rushed to report from the scene.
“He went upstairs to film the incident – how the hospital was bombed, how Hussam, our colleague, was bombed – to help him,” his friend Abdullah Fu’ad Al Attar, a fellow journalist in Gaza city, said.
“He wanted to help and document everything. This is what we do as journalists, especially when colleagues are targeted.”
Suddenly, a second missile crashed through the ceiling of the hospital, injuring Mohammed and killing 20 others.
The blood-strained camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo: AFP)In total, Israel struck the hospital four times on 25 August. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later called the incident a “tragic mishap” and said military authorities were “conducting a thorough investigation”.
Four health workers and five journalists were among the dead, as was a newborn baby, whose body was pictured being carried away swaddled in white fabric.
Mohammed sustained several injuries to his chest, abdomen, back, right hand, and leg, and has been in intermediate care unit at Nasser Hospital for the past seven days.
His family and friends are campaigning for help from media colleagues and others to evacuate him from Gaza for potentially lifesaving treatment abroad.
Brother Ahmed Fayeq told The i Paper: “I urge all journalists, or anyone involved in journalism, or anyone who has the capability to medically evacuate him, to please take on this task.
“If we leave it too late, we may end up losing him, or he may well become disabled. Please, please, please, I am begging – anyone who is able to help Mohammed, please do so.”
Mohammed Fayeq in the Gazan hospital he was reporting in after it was hit by an Israeli airstrikeAttar warned: “His situation is critical. The doctors said he suffers paraplegia while Gaza hospitals and healthcare sector are facing a severe crisis.
“There are no nurses or treatments in Gaza that can help Mohammad’s case. The rehabilitation he needs right now is only available outside of Gaza.
“He needs to be seen by specialised doctors. Mohammad’s case is treatable, but only if he leaves Gaza.
“If he stays in Gaza, with the lack of resources and the current circumstances, he can lose a lot of things: functions in his body, or even become completely paralysed, God forbid. It is his right to live and travel to receive treatment.”
Mohammad’s family expected him to be evacuated by the World Health Organization (WHO) two days ago, but it has been postponed because Nasser hospital told the American hospital facilitating his exit that his condition has stabilised – a claim that has baffled his loved ones.
They have receiving hospitals ready in Jordan and in Holland.
Attar said he hope evacuation could “save what is left of his body and health”, and eventually for Mohammad to return home and continue work as a journalist.
“We hope that he [can] recover, walk again, and return to Gaza and convey its beauty and the voice of its people, just like he used to,” he said.
A woman carries the body of a newborn killed in an attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Photo: Samar Abu Elouf/UN Women)Dr Ahmed, Ubaid 27, was working at Nasser Hospital the day the blasts hit.
“When I heard the explosion, I ran towards the emergency department. I started to treat people who were injured. That’s when the second attack hit,” he said in voicenotes from Gaza.
Ahmed was badly injured in the second, with hot shrapnel embedding in his knee. He believes he was the only survivor nearby.
“I just heard and saw a large explosion. I felt I was injured but I couldn’t detect where. I saw the people where around me killed on the ground and couldn’t move at first,” he said.
Dr Ubaid being treated after the attack.“There was a lot of smoke. I tried to drag myself away because everyone was afraid to come closer, fearing a third explosion. I dragged myself inside the medical tent, which is attached to the hospital. I was semi-conscious, and tried to hold on to consciousness.
“A student nurse helped me. I gave her four or five orders and then I lost consciousness. I was transferred to a field hospital where I had an operation, and then back to Nasser hospital, where I had a second operation.”
A week on from the blast, he is a patient in the hospital he once worked in, and the medication he relies on is running out.
Ahmed is taking antibiotics to stave off infection, but one of the two medications he takes ran out three days ago.
He needs an arthroscope, a procedure in which a joint is inspected and operated on, and an MRI scan – neither of which can be performed in Gaza.
Dr Ubaid. left, at work before the attack.Ahmed’s case has been referred by the hospital to the WHO, but he has been warned the evacuation process could take “months or years”.
“I’m still young. I’m an emergency doctor and work 120 hours per week, so this injury is very sensitive. Without that treatment, it will heal incorrectly and I will suffering all my life,” he said.
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Read More“[If I was evacuated], I hope it could heal rapidly, to get back to my work and stand with my family.”
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced at the end of July that the UK would medically evacuate Gazan children for treatment in British hospitals.
The Government contributes to the funding of charity UK-Med, whose field hospital has treated 600,000 patients in Gaza, and is funding the WHO’s work in Egypt, where 8,000 Gazans who have been medically evacuated to.
The first two children were successfully evacuated from Gaza to the UK for care earlier this year, with between 30 and 50 expected in the coming weeks.
More than 200 patients and their families have been evacuated to the EU.
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