“ Some 700 people stayed in that 5,000-square-foot tunnel for two days, while American bombs rained outside and shook the walls, he said.
A surgeon performed operations without anesthetic, patients’ shrieks reverberating down the subterranean half-cylinder. Next to Fauvel, one woman gave birth behind a sheet, he recalled, while another person periodically came round with a bucket for toiletry needs.
“I was a child but I still think about it all the time — I am traumatized,” he said. “When I see the scenes in Gaza and Ukraine I cannot help thinking of the impact on the children — because I was that child.”
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