Israeli operation leaves Rafah's hospitals overwhelmed

Even without a full-scale Israeli ground invasion, Rafah's medical facilities have been overwhelmed.

Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military began a "limited" operation against Hamas on its eastern outskirts on Monday.

The largest of the city's three partially functioning hospitals, Abu Youssef al-Najjar, had to be hastily abandoned the following day after staff received an evacuation order and there was fighting nearby. read more