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A journalist inside Gaza’s largest hospital tells AFP that Israeli troops have withdrawn from the facility after entering it overnight and have redeployed around its outskirts.
Israeli forces entered Gaza City’s Shifa hospital in the early hours of the morning, in what the IDF says was a “focused” operation “in a defined area” of the hospital.
A senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said soldiers had found “concrete evidence” of Hamas’s use of the hospital as a military facility.