Patients, workers leave Gaza hospital days after Israeli raid

Some said they were ordered to evacuate Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The army said it had granted the hospital director's request to help people leave safely.

Injured patients, medical staff and hundreds of displaced Palestinians left the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. Saturday, a witness and a hospital doctor said, days after Israeli troops stormed the compound in search of Hamas command centers.

There was confusion over what caused people to leave the besieged Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. According to the witness interviewed by telephone, Israeli troops announced an evacuation via megaphone.

The Israeli army said it had not ordered an evacuation but that she had granted a request. taken by the hospital director to allow patients and medical staff who wished to do so to leave the hospital safely.

“There was no ambulances, nothing,” said witness Mahmoud Abu Harbed, a resident of northern Gaza who spent more than a month in Al-Shifa. The roads leading to the hospital, he said, were heavily damaged by the bombing.

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