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Doctors at one of Gaza City’s last functioning hospitals say they are overwhelmed with casualties from Israeli strikes and are having to carry out operations in filthy conditions with few or no anesthetics.
One Australian medic volunteering at al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that every day was a mass casualty event, while another described how a baby had been saved from the body of a pregnant woman who had been killed.
Israeli forces are now just 500m away from the hospital as they expand their ground offensive to fully occupy Gaza City, which Israel’s military calls Hamas’s “main stronghold. Witnesses say tanks are advancing into the city centre from the south and north-west. END
