Israel tells Gazans to evacuate as it raids al-Shifa hospital
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Summary
- The Israel Defense Forces launch an overnight raid on al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire
- The IDF says "senior Hamas terrorists have regrouped" inside the hospital and are using it to launch attacks
- Hundreds of displaced Palestinians are sheltering at the hospital, which was raided by Israeli forces earlier in the conflict
- The IDF calls on people in the hospital and surrounding areas to evacuate to a nearby "humanitarian area"
- A doctor at the hospital tells the BBC his team began hearing gunfire in the early hours: "Anyone in the grounds were targeted," he says
- The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza accuses Israel of a war crime, and using "fabricated narratives"
- Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel on 7 October and took 253 others hostage
- Gaza's health ministry says more than 31,300 people have been killed in Gaza since then
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