At the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, medical staff are being forced to improvise without supplies as they struggle to treat the hundreds of injured arriving every day.

“Last night it was a horror movie. Blood and dead bodies everywhere.” Naseralldin Abutaha, an emergency nurse at the hospital, told NBC News this morning.

Without the most basic equipment at Gaza hospitals, Abutaha, 21, said sometimes the staff would be forced to use shirts as tourniquets. Even water was not available, he said, adding, “I swear I once used cola to wash a cut.”

“I feel if I didn’t die, I’m dead inside. I can’t cry anymore,” said Abutaha, who said he was seeing as many as 200 patients every day in a 12-hour shift.