RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel maintained punishing airstrikes in retaliation for last week’s deadly rampage by Hamas. Thousands of patients’ lives were at risk, U.N. officials said, and mediators struggled for a cease-fire to let in aid waiting at the Egyptian border. All eyes were on the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, where trucks carrying aid have waited for days unable to pass through. As Israel prepared a likely ground offensive into Gaza, fears rose over the conflict spreading along Israel’s border with Lebanon.