Palestine, Sept. 10 -- Forcing 1 million people, including hundreds of critically ill patients and newborn babies, out of Gaza City and into overcrowded and under-resourced areas in the center and south of the Strip is a death sentence, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns.

Relentless bombing by the Israeli forces and the advance of their ground offensive are killing Palestinians and driving them from their homes and shelters-sometimes multiple times-following a pattern of complete destruction previously witnessed by MSF teams in Rafah more than a year ago.

Without urgent, radical intervention, Gaza faces total annihilation.

The makeshift shelters many people are currently living in offer little protection as bo...