Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks and we're beginning in Gaza with the Enclave's largest functioning medical facility in a perilous state.
It's the NASA hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunus and we started getting reports last night,
Thursday night,
Gaza time that the hospital had stopped admitting casualties and new patients as an Israeli ground offensive drew closer.
But doctors at NASA have now halted all admissions amid a widening Israeli ground offensive that seen troops approach to within 200 meters of the hospital.
One doctor posted this video of the scene inside the neonatal unit as emergency alarms sounded after generators shut down.
He said it risked cutting power to the neonatal incubators.
for the incubators, for the mechanical ventilation.
This is one of the most serious complications of the electricity and lack of fuel in Gaza and in also medical conflicts nowadays.
Well, a short while ago,
we managed to get through to the hospital and speak to Dr. Sabah Al-Asma,
an emergency physician there.
This started two days ago.
like the night before the last night.
And what happened is exactly that during the working at Nasser Hospital,
many tanks and bulldozers started to get closer and closer.
We didn't get in war and for sudden these tanks of course with shooting all over around.
Even we have casualties from the hospital yards have been from the drones and the tanks.