shrapnel

Pictures showed shattered windows, cracks from shrapnel, a gaping hole in the mud-brick wall and twisted metal from hospital beds covering the floor.

The smart shops and restaurants running down to the beach are now pockmarked with shrapnel and bullet holes, the park with its French-manicured trees, is buried under grey rubble.

"My other son was hit in the head by shrapnel and in his arm, and I was hit in my right leg."

The latest, a nurse who died of shrapnel injuries from an Israeli air strike near his tent in September.

Also across his torso are the scars from 47 pieces of shrapnel, he tells us.