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The Israeli army withdrew from al-Shifa hospital in the city of Gaza during the night, some two weeks after the start of its military operation there, according to Palestinian reports from Monday morning. Local media reported that the operation had caused severe destruction to the buildings of the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip. Around 300 bodies were found in and around the hospital, according to the Palestinian civil defence force, which is controlled by the militant organization Hamas. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 21 patients have died since the start of the ......

Staff employed by Doctors without Borders and their families are trapped in the vicinity of Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital, the medical aid organization said in Berlin. The organization said that 137 people linked to it, including 65 children, were unable to leave and that attempts to evacuate them had failed. Doctors without Borders called for an immediate ceasefire to allow civilians to evacuate, warning that a lack of food and drinking water could lead to deaths "in the days, or even hours ahead." It said that its staff and their families had been unable to leave accommodation near the hospital f......