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| Times Reporters Got a Rare Glimpse of Gaza’s Largest Hospital | Times Reporters Got a Rare Glimpse of Gaza’s Largest Hospital |
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| Early this morning, three of my colleagues visited Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex, which has become central to the war between Israel and Hamas. | Early this morning, three of my colleagues visited Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex, which has become central to the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| There, the Israeli military escorted them to a stone-and-concrete shaft with a staircase descending into the earth. It was evidence, Israeli officials asserted, of a Hamas military facility under the hospital. But a commander said that the forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft. | There, the Israeli military escorted them to a stone-and-concrete shaft with a staircase descending into the earth. It was evidence, Israeli officials asserted, of a Hamas military facility under the hospital. But a commander said that the forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft. |
| The controlled visit did not settle the question of whether Hamas had been using Al-Shifa to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. But it did offer my colleagues a rare opportunity to witness the wartime conditions inside Gaza City. | The controlled visit did not settle the question of whether Hamas had been using Al-Shifa to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. But it did offer my colleagues a rare opportunity to witness the wartime conditions inside Gaza City. |
| Our Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley, described houses flattened like playing cards, and a city utterly disfigured. They drove into a neighborhood Patrick had visited a dozen times over the past three years, yet he could hardly recognize it. | Our Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley, described houses flattened like playing cards, and a city utterly disfigured. They drove into a neighborhood Patrick had visited a dozen times over the past three years, yet he could hardly recognize it. |
| “I could not find the fish market,” Patrick wrote. “The apartment blocks, I now realized, had been wrecked by shelling or strikes. The road had vanished, churned into a sandy, rutted track by the hundreds of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles that have fanned out across the territory.” | |
| As troops searched Al-Shifa for a third day, Israel announced that it would allow limited shipments of fuel to the enclave to avoid “epidemics” amid the wreckage of the territory. |