RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Amer Muqayyad can still remember how his wounds bled for more than an hour at the Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. He was not given a chance to be treated by the doctors. 

“I was injured by an Israeli rocket fragment during the Rafah massacre that occurred during the Israeli war on Gaza [in August 2014]," Muqayyad, 24, told Al-Monitor. "Because the Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital — which is the only hospital in the city — was crowded with wounded and martyrs, I continued to bleed for an hour before a nurse hastily treated me and asked me to leave the hospital immediately to make room for other patients.”

The Rafah massacre was part of an extensive Israeli military operation that took place last Aug. 1 during the war on Gaza. The artillery opened heavy fire on all the city’s districts and killed 112 on the first day, and another 120 on the second and third days, according to a report by the National Assembly for Democracy and Law.

The same report stated that the war claimed the lives of 454 in Rafah city, including 363 civilians, 128 children and 80 women. This is while the number of injured reached 1,052, mostly civilians.