In shaky video footage filmed from inside the Anglican-run Al-Ahli Arab hospital last night, fires were raging amid scenes of hellish devastation.

The bombing of the hospital, which Palestinian officials have blamed on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is feared to have killed more than 200 civilians, in what would be one of the most deadly incidents in Israel’s war with Gaza.

Bodies were piled up in white bags on the lawn outside the facility in Gaza City as a stream of rescuers brought out ever more, carrying the corpses in whatever they could; rugs, gurneys or their arms.

A video reportedly filmed just outside the hospital’s window showed a bomb whoosh through the air, hitting the ground and illuminating the nighttime horizon as an onlooker exclaimed: “Oh God, oh God!”

In another video apparently shot from a high-rise building nearby, a part of the compound was engulfed by fire.

The horrific scenes provoked fury across Gaza and the Arab world, with protesters storming the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital. 

The IDF denied responsibility for the strike, saying that military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the enclave’s Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.