‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

With vehicles rare, roads clogged and many displaced people making the journey on foot, some patients were arriving with week-old injuries. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.

At both Nasser medical complex, in the southern city of Khan Younis, and field hospitals in al-Muwasi, the coastal “humanitarian zone” designated by Israel, staff are struggling to cope with large numbers of new arrivals forced out of Gaza City in the north of the devastated Palestinian territory.