A doctor in Gaza has described how medical staff are "totally exhausted and under severe stress" after working constantly while "their families are at risk".
Speaking to RTÉ's Six One News, Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, Deputy Medical Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Gaza said that staff have been working 24/7 for 29 days with a "huge humber of injured patients".
"Some of their families have been injured. Some of them have lost their families," he said.
"More than 20,000 injured people have been received in hospitals since the beginning of the war."
Dr Mughaisib said the health system already suffered from a lot of gaps before the war in terms of a lack of medication and medical disposables, but with the war, the situation has become worse and worse.
"They are now operating everywhere in the hospital because it is so crowded," he said.
"They're operating on the floor, without painkillers, without anaesthetic, without drugs. There's thousands of people sheltering in the hospitals escaping from their homes, hoping its a safe place. So, the hospitals are really chaotic," he said.
One of the most concerning issues for medical staff is the risk of air strikes near the hospitals.
Despite expectations the conflict could last weeks or longer, Dr Mughaisib fears for what could happen within days.
"With the risk of striking now beside hospitals, this is a critical situation, with these huge numbers of people in the hospitals; the patients, families as well as the lack of fuel. They've been running on generators for 29 days.
"I think the hospitals, sorry to say this, they will be called morgues. I mean it will just be full of dead bodies. Patients would die."
With staff overwhelmed and exhausted, and medical supplies dwindling, MSF has repeatedly called for a ceasefire.
"We are calling to stop the war. We are calling for humanitarian corridors. We are calling to have medical and basic things to enter to Gaza. And we need medical staff to come to support the medical staff in Gaza."
