Australian medics staffing new Red Cross hospital in Rafah as Israeli offensive intensifies

Field hospital will be able to provide medical care for about 200 people a day amid spiralling health crisis in Gaza

Australian medical workers are staffing a new Red Cross field hospital established in Rafah, in southern Gaza, as continued hostilities deepen a spiralling health crisis in the territory.

Israeli offensives have intensified in Gaza with witnesses reporting helicopter strikes and street battles in Rafah as hundreds of thousands of people flee intense fighting across the city.