TEL AVIV, Israel — Doctors Without Borders has suspended operations in Gaza City because of the danger to its staff caused by the Israeli military's ground offensive, the latest sign of the growing pressures on medical care in the Gaza Strip.

The organization, which provides medical care, including treatment for malnutrition and severe trauma injuries, said Friday that it had stopped activities in Gaza City and that Israeli tanks and military strikes had advanced within roughly a half mile of the group's clinics there.

"We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," Jacob Granger, the emergency medical coordinator in Gaza for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza

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