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Speaking to The Independent from inside al-Shifa, the head of the hospital’s burns unit says it is a ‘gamble’ to move as Israeli troops are still in the complex containing hundreds of patients and staff

Watch a live view over the Israel-Gaza border on Wednesday 15 November, as Israel says its forces have entered the Al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, as part of the IDF’s ground offensive against Hamas.

Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as bases of operations for its fighters, a claim hospital staff deny

Israel claims Hamas are concealing military operations in the facility where the UN says thousands of patients, internally displaced people and medics are staying

After over a month of the Israel-Hamas war, journalists have had little, if any, access to the Gaza Strip. As the Israeli ground offensive deepens, army troops are taking reporters on tours of the besieged enclave. Our correspondent Claire Duhamel spent three hours embedded with them in northern Gaza. Here…

Health officials in the Hamas-run territory says bodies need to be buried as they can’t be moved – while lives of dozens of babies are in the balance as fuel runs out for incubators

Israeli forces deliver significant blows, killing senior Hamas commanders and damaging terror infrastructure

Online picture shows IDF Golani Brigade soldiers displaying the Israeli flag inside Hamas’s police headquarters in the Gaza Strip

Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in…