Rafah, December 5 (RHC)-- Hundreds of wounded people were seen being taken from rubble and to hospitals in southern Gaza throughout the day Monday, according to footage from the scene.  

In a Reuters video, a baby is seen being rushed from a civilian car into the Nasser Hospital.  The 2-month-old baby is seen laying on a stretcher, apparently unconscious, as doctors remove the baby's clothes and connect the infant to an oxygen supply.

Israel has been intensifying its aerial bombardment of southern Gaza in recent days. On Sunday, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said Israel was expanding its ground operations to the whole of the Gaza Strip.

"They told us to leave Gaza, there's a war in Gaza, so we left (to the north) and came here to the south just like they asked.  But this is what we've found in the south", Ibrahim Esbeitan, the baby's father, said in the video while pointing at the child.

"What can we do?  This is my son, he was born on the second day of the war and we haven't been able to register his birth yet (at the civil registry)," he said.

In another video, a child walks into the same medical center with his head wrapped in a big yellow bandage.  More injured people are seen being taken to the emergency room covered in dust — many of whom were brought in civilian cars, carts pulled by donkeys or ambulances.

In Salah Al-Arja, in Rafah, residents were seen trying to rescue their loved ones with their bare hands.

"We were asleep and safe.  They told us it was a safe area, Rafah and all.  But at twenty past ten, they stuck it with barrels, destroying all the block.  There were children, women, and martyrs.  There is no safe area, neither Rafah, nor Khan Younis, nor Gaza, nor Dier.  They are all liars.  They say it is a safe area, they let us seek refuge, they evacuated Khan Younis and Gaza and still they bomb," an unnamed local resident told Reuters.

"They tell you it is a safe area, but there is no safe area in all of the Gaza Strip.  It is all lies and manipulations," he added.