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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke International security correspondent

Medics in southern Gaza sound alarm over wave of newly displaced Palestinians

View of cars, carts and people walking down a road alongside the beach and sea in the central Gaza Strip. The road is full as it stretches into the distance
Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza move southward in the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

Doctors and medical staff at the largest hospital still functioning in Gaza say they will be overwhelmed by a wave of new wounded and sick patients if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee the north of the devastated territory in the face of an intensifying Israeli offensive.

Dr Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at the Nasser medical complex near Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza, said there were not enough staff to cope with even existing demand and that supplies of medicine and fuel were running low.

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