Palestine, July 30 -- As medical staff work on very little food and with insufficient supplies, near-daily mass casualty incidents continue in Gaza-further overwhelming the health care system. After nearly two years of war and amid Israel's punishing siege, not a single hospital in the Gaza Strip is currently fully functional.
"The health system is overwhelmed and it's collapsing," said Dr. Mohammed Fadlalla, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) medical activity manager. "As we speak, it's collapsing."
The MSF-supported Al Zawaida Field Hospital in Deir Al-Balah is now operating over capacity, with no space for new patients. Within three weeks, the field hospital increased its bed capacity from 70 to 115 beds, but thi...
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