Overwhelmed hospitals in Gaza receive new wave of wounded civilians

In southern Gaza, the Nasser Hospital is filled to the brim with wounded civilians. 

Among them, a man cradling a boy with a bloodied scalp, crying for help, according to Reuters. 

The news agency published footage from the hospital, the second largest in the Gaza Strip, showing a steady stream of wounded people being brought in as other people wept outside beside bodies of loved ones killed in Israeli air strikes.

Aid groups and the United Nations say a small fraction of health facilities in the devastated enclave are still functioning and those are in no shape to handle a new wave of casualties.

"Hospitals across Gaza lack the basic supplies, staff, and fuel to deliver primary health care at the scale needed, let alone safely treat urgent cases," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.