Israeli troops leave Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a wreck in sea of rubble

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******** troops leave Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a wreck in sea of rubble

Maxar satellite imagery of the al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza. 

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******** forces have withdrawn from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the ******** military said on Monday, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and ************ bodies scattered in the dirt of the complex.

Hundreds of residents rushed to the area around the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital to check on damage to the surrounding residential districts after fighting between ******* and the ************ ****** group that administers Gaza.

The ******** military said it had ******* and detained hundreds of gunmen in clashes in the area of the hospital, and seized weaponry and intelligence documents. ****** and medical staff deny that ************ fighters have any armed presence in hospitals.

A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Emergency Service said ******** forces had ********* two people whose bodies were found at the complex in handcuffs, and used bulldozers to dig up the grounds of the complex and exhume ******* bodies.

Reuters could not verify the allegation of executions and *******’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Footage circulated on social media and not yet verified by Reuters showed the bodies of ***** Palestinians, some covered in ****** blankets, scattered on the ground around the charred hulk of the hospital building, many of whose outer walls were missing.

It showed the grounds heavily ploughed up, and numerous buildings outside the facility either flattened or burned down.

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“I haven’t stopped crying since I arrived here, horrible massacres were committed by the occupation here,” said Samir Basel, 43, speaking to Reuters via a chat app as he toured Al Shifa.

“The place is destroyed, buildings have been burnt and destroyed. This place needs to be rebuilt – there is no Shifa hospital anymore,” Basel said.

******* said operations inside Al Shifa had been conducted “while preventing harm to civilians, patients and medical teams.”

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