In pictures:

Inside Israel’s coronavirus battlegrounds

In a special project for Shomrim, photographer Bea Bar Kallos went into the COVID-19 units at various hospital and documented, from the inside, the fight against the pandemic that changed the world.

Warning: You may find some of these images disturbing.

Photos: Bea Bar Kallos

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The underground parking at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, which was converted into a COVID-19 unit for 700 patients.

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The coronavirus command and control center in theunderground parking lot of the Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa
An impromptu barrier at the entrance to the COVID-19 unitset-up in the underground parking lot of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
Name tags worn by the medical staff of Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, so they can be identified.
Staff treating a coronavirus patient in the COVID-19 unitof Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv.
A nurse's station in Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv.
Medical staff treating a patient at the COVID-19 unit at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
The COVID-19 unit at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
A son visiting his father after six weeks of hospitalization at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
Staff preparing to enter the COVID-19 unit of Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa.
A physiotherapist in the COVID-19 unit of the Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya.
Medical staff in the COVID-19 unit of the Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya.
The COVID-19 unit at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
Coronavirus patients at the Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya.
A nurse's station at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The COVID-19 intake ward of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv.
A recovering coronavirus patient using a lung exerciser at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
The hospital underneath the hospital. The COVID-19 unit in the underground parking at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
A nurse playing music videos for the patients and staff at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
The COVID-19 unit at Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv.

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