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| Nasser hospital: Israel special forces enter key Gaza medical facility | |
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| Israel's military says its special forces have gone into the besieged Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. | Israel's military says its special forces have gone into the besieged Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. |
| It says "a precise and limited operation" is under way. It says Hamas fighters are hiding inside and Israeli hostages' bodies might also be there. | It says "a precise and limited operation" is under way. It says Hamas fighters are hiding inside and Israeli hostages' bodies might also be there. |
| It comes a day after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered thousands of displaced people to leave the site. | It comes a day after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered thousands of displaced people to leave the site. |
| The hospital is the largest in the south of the Gaza Strip. | The hospital is the largest in the south of the Gaza Strip. |
| Video footage from earlier appears to show medical staff rushing to take patients in stretchers through a corridor filled with smoke. | Video footage from earlier appears to show medical staff rushing to take patients in stretchers through a corridor filled with smoke. |
| A spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry said the Israeli military had demolished the southern wall of the hospital complex and entered that way. | |
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| Ashraf al-Qudra said the hospital administration had been asked to transfer all patients, "including intensive care and nursery patients" to an older hospital building. | |
| The BBC is working to verify footage said to be from inside the hospital. | |
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| Related Topics | Related Topics |
| Middle East | Middle East |
| Israel-Gaza war | Israel-Gaza war |
| Gaza | Gaza |