Black Thursday in Aleppo Mohamed Al Najar | Senior Producer, Al Jazeera Net
As we approached Al Shifaa Hospital in Aleppo, my wound was still bleeding. I was assisted to the emergency room where a nurse put me on a gurney. But a few seconds later, even though the bleeding had not stopped, I left in a hurry, telling myself ‘my case is not a priority’. Although, as I was later told, I had passed out for a few minutes, I had felt ashamed to be treated while so many victims were lying on the hospital floor.
It was Thursday, October 5, 2012 and that scene is still carved into my memory. It has been nine years since I was hit by shrapnel from a mortar shell in Aleppo and still I cannot put into words the horrors I witnessed in that hospital: victims of the Syrian regime’s shelling – most of them women and children – torn to pieces. “We will clean the wound and stop the bleeding. An x-ray is needed to ensure there are no bone fractures, then you can go in peace,” a nurse told me before I left the hospital.
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