After Al-Shifa raids final week, the choice to depart the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital was taken by the Israeli navy. Israel believed that the hospital had a Hamas command centre in a tunnel complicated beneath it.

Israeli forces vacated Gaza’s largest medical facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, on Friday. The improvement got here on the primary day of a short lived truce between Israel and Palestinian militants, Hamas, reported AFP.

After Al-Shifa raids final week, the choice to depart the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital was taken by the Israeli navy. Israel believed that the hospital had a Hamas command centre in a tunnel complicated beneath it.

Israel drew main flak from the World Health Organisation (WHO) after it raided the Al-Shifa hospital. Whereas, Hamas, then again, denied the cost of a command centre contained in the medical facility.

Parts of southern Israel have been attacked by Hamas militants on October 7. The Israeli officers stated that the assaults by the fear outfit led to the killings of about 1,200 folks.

Many of the two,300 sufferers, staff, and displaced residents who have been taking refuge within the Al-Shifa complicated have been transferred to the southern a part of the Gaza Strip following the Israeli raid.

According to spokesman Christian Lindmeier, the World Health Organisation was “extremely concerned” for the security of the roughly 100 sufferers and medical personnel who have been nonetheless at Al-Shifa.

People at Al-Shifa stay in a battered complicated, and the primary generator of it has been destroyed, knowledgeable Hamas well being ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra.