Elias Jaradeh worked for almost 24 hours on the wounded, many of whom lost eyes or the use of their hands.
A Lebanese surgeon has described how the sheer volume of severe wounds from two days of exploding device attacks forced him to act "robotic" just to be able to keep working.
The bomb attacks – which killed 37 people including two children – have been widely blamed on Israel, which has not claimed responsibility.Dr Jaradeh, who is also an MP for the Change parliamentary bloc, was working at a specialist eye and ear hospital where some of the most severely wounded people were sent. He said it had taken a toll on the medical teams, himself included.
"It was very hard," he said. "Most of the patients were young men in their twenties and in some cases I had to remove both eyes. In my whole life I had not seen scenes similar to what I saw yesterday."“This is something that unfortunately will require a lot of rehabilitation,” he said. One woman told BBC Arabic on Thursday that what they had seen was a "massacre in every sense of the world".
In the aftermath of the exploding pagers and radio devices the Lebanese army has been destroying suspicious devices with controlled detonations, while walkie-talkies and pagers have now been banned onboard all flights operating at Beirut's Rafic Hariri Airport - the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon.
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