DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — As Israeli troops bear down, the health care system in Gaza City is coming under fire and being pushed toward collapse.

Nearly two weeks into Israel’s latest ground offensive on Gaza’s largest city, two clinics were destroyed by airstrikes, two hospitals shut down after being damaged and others are barely functioning, with medicine, equipment, food and fuel in short supply.

Many patients and staff have been forced to flee hospitals, leaving behind only a few doctors and nurses to tend to children in incubators or other patients too ill to move. Bombardment outside shakes hospitals’ walls and Israeli drones buzz around, often firing nearby, making it dangerous to come and go, according to health workers.

Al-Quds hospital, at the southern edge of Gaza City

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