Palestinians flee central Gaza’s main hospital as fighting draws closer

Omar al-Darawi, an employee at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, said the facility has been struck multiple times in recent days.

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah (AP)

Medics, patients and displaced people are fleeing from the main hospital in central Gaza as the fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants draws closer, witnesses said.

Losing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital would be another major blow to a health system shattered by three months of war.