Doctors at Kuwaiti Speciality Hospital say it is one of the few places in Rafah where the wounded or dying can turn for care, but that role may come under unbearable pressure if Israel launches a full-scale advance into the southern Gaza city, Reuters reports.

Israeli forces are bearing down on Rafah as part of their drive to eradicate Hamas, despite warnings this could result in mass casualties in an area where displaced civilians have found shelter.

Staff at the Speciality Hospital say they fear such an assault would produce a crush of new patients that would overwhelm exhausted doctors, who already complain of shortages of medicine and proper equipment.

“We have been here from the start of the war until now, and I do hope they will not target us, they will not threaten us,” said doctor Jamal al-Hams.

“I do hope the whole medical team will continue to present its services to the injured people, to the critically ill patients, to the people who have chronic diseases,” he added.

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