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Israel-Gaza war: Israeli military tells Gazans to evacuate al-Shifa hospital after raid - BBC News Israel-Gaza war: Israeli military tells Gazans to evacuate al-Shifa hospital after raid - BBC News
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Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem Eyewitness have told of how panic gripped those inside al-Shifa hospital after Israeli forces launched a raid overnight.
Dr Amjad Eliwah, deputy director of the emergency department at Al-Shifa, has told the BBC that his staff began hearing gunshots and what sounded like shell impacts at about 2.30am. "Tanks are surrounding us. We are hiding inside the tent. We hear tank fire in the vicinity of the compound," a man says in a call with his brother, which was posted in a WhatsApp group and heard by the BBC.
Eliwah, who was due to begin his shift shortly after the raid began, spoke to the BBC from just outside the hospital grounds, form where he was in contact with his staff inside. He said the medical teams were hiding away from the windows after Israeli drones had fired at anyone moving. In unverified footage posted on social media, heavy gunfire could be heard around the hospital.
“Anyone in the grounds of the hospital were targeted,” he said. “There is a lot of injured, people are bleeding. My staff are hiding in the hallways – they were ordered by a loudspeaker not to move.” "The soldiers here inside the complex," another man inside the hospital said in voice message sent to journalists.
He said there were approximately 20 doctors and 60 nurses inside the hospital, as well as hundreds of patients. “The situation inside is very critical,” he said. "There are dead and wounded, and the soldiers arrested some young men. The situation here is catastrophic," he says.
The Israeli army also raided two schools next to the hospital that were being used as shelters by displaced people, Eliwah said, and arrested all the men inside and told the women to leave through a designated exit.
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