Harrowing new footage shows chaos at Israeli hospital after Oct. 7 attack: Evil beyond what you can comprehend

They had prepared for the worst — only to discover they didn’t know the meaning of the word.Gut-wrenching newly released security footage from inside an Israeli hospital captures the chaos and heroism on Oct.7, 2023 — as hundreds of traumatized and bloodied victims of Hamas’ sneak attack poured through its doors.

The footage shows wounded soldiers and civilians rushing through Soroka Medical Center as doctors and nurses scramble to treat the patients, who ranged from babies to elderly Israelis to young revelers shot at the Nova music festival — and even a heavily pregnant mom.“At some point you realize you’re not seeing a terror attack, you’re seeing a massacre,” Prof.Shlomi Codish, CEO of Clalit-Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, told The Post on the eve of the attack’s third anniversary.The hospital, the only Level 1 trauma center in southern Israel, treated a staggering 674 wounded in the first 24 hours after the terror attack — more than five times the 121 casualties from the largest mass-casualty incident it had previously faced.“The maximum number we practiced for was 300,” Codish said.

“We do drills to 300, which is considered a fantastic number that we’ll never see.”The hospital’s emergency protocols kicked in almost immediately after the attack began, with Soroka ordering 100 additional units of blood and summoning more than 1,000 staffers before 8 a.m.“If we hadn’t done that, people would have died,” Codish said of the blood order.By the time hospital leaders arrived, it was becoming clear that this was unlike anything they had prepared for.“If you take the wildest horror director somewhere, they’re not going to come up with this scenario,” Codish said.The hospital’s first operation was on a Bedouin Muslim woman in her 20s who was more than 40 weeks pregnant with her first child when she was shot in the abdomen.Doctors saved the woman and delivered her daughter during emergency surgery, but the baby died 1...