Rafah, December 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces continue their relentless bombing campaign against the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.  The Zionist war machine is purposefully targetting hospitals and medical facilities in southern Gaza, in and around Rafah.  

“The number of wounded being brought to the hospital is massive.  Doctors and paramedics have not been able to save them all,” one doctor said, describing the intensity of the attacks and noting that “it is very dangerous for people to leave for either the north or the south.  At the same time, conditions here are very harsh.  There is no food in the markets.  Even the little food that was once available is not any more since the centre has been split off from the south.”

At least six people were killed and 14 wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.  An Al Jazeera team at the site of the strike reported on Wednesday that people were trapped under the rubble of a building that was hit.

As the injured are rushed to the few remaining functional hospitals in the area, relief organizations sounded the alarm that supplies were perilously low.  The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, warned that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah was running out of options.

“There are 700 patients admitted in the hospital now, with new patients arriving all the time,” MSF emergency coordinator Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial said. “We are running out of essential supplies to treat them.”

At least 16,248 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7.  In Israel, the official death toll stands at about 1,200.