(Radio France Internationale).-For a long time, Salma took refuge in a Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah. “In the Gaza Strip, if you find a place inside a hospital, you move there to live,” says the young woman. Sami Buchelifa, our correspondent in Jerusalem. “We hope hospitals are saved from attacks“, keep going.

“But a few days ago we had to leave the hospital in Kuwait because it was bombed. We went to another hospital in Rafah, an Emirati one. We thought this was a relatively safe area, away from the fighting. But an unpleasant surprise awaited us, because the entire perimeter of this hospital was also bombed. And today bombs fell at the entrance to the hospital. All the caretakers have left,” he says. “And both hospitals closed,” says Salma.

A test with no end in sight…

“All hospitals in Rafah They are now out of service. Kuwaitis, Emiratis, Indonesians. Only field hospitals remain. And we helpless, homeless… We found no shelter nowhere in the Rafah region,” he adds.

And the trials are not going to end. Israel’s national security adviser said the war could drag onseven more months“to achieve the goal destroy Hamas in power in the Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, the Israeli army said it had taken control of the strategic buffer zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt near Rafah.

“We have established operational control“The corridor is 14 kilometers long,” the official, who wished to remain anonymous, told reporters.

Israeli troops already took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on May 7, launching a ground offensive against the town on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.