Medics, patients flee Gaza's southern hospitals as fighting intensifies
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00:00 Wounded civilians continue to stream into Gaza's hospitals.
00:04 Only about a third of the enclave's health facilities are functioning in any way,
00:09 and the WHO warns they're now at risk of collapse.
00:13 Israel is now largely focusing its military campaign on the central region and the southern
00:17 city of Can Yunis.
00:19 As the conflict intensifies there, many medical staff and patients are fleeing for their lives.
00:24 We're seeing this humanitarian catastrophe unfold before our eyes.
00:28 We're seeing the health system collapse at a very rapid pace.
00:32 We cannot lose these health facilities.
00:34 They absolutely must be protected.
00:36 This is the last line of secondary, tertiary health care that Gaza has.
00:41 From the north to the south, it's been dropping, hospital after hospital.
00:45 This man desperately sought medical aid for his brother.
00:49 My brother was wounded yesterday in al-Aqsa.
00:52 There are no doctors.
00:54 What do I do, let him die?
00:56 They can't even find an anesthetic injection.
00:59 He has a fractured skull and broken bones all over his body.
01:04 For the hundreds of thousands of displaced, living conditions are cramped with a lack
01:09 of basic sanitation.
01:10 The UN humanitarian chief says the strip has become uninhabitable.
01:17 I don't know where my children will sleep.
01:20 Will they sleep on the sand?
01:22 There's garbage next to us.
01:25 There is no safe place.
01:27 There's no hygiene.
01:30 The WHO said it had been unable to deliver supplies to northern Gaza for 12 days, where
01:36 remaining civilians face dire shortages of food and water.