Palestinian residents also reported that the IDF had left the area after a two week raid
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Mohammed Mahdi, a resident, has described a scene of “total destruction” around the site of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after Israeli troops pulled out of the medicial facility following a two-week military operation.
He told the Associated Press that several buildings had been burned down and that he had counted six bodies in the area, including two in the hospital courtyard. This claim has not been independently verified by the Guardian.
Video footage circulating online showed heavily damaged and charred buildings, mounds of dirt that had been churned up by bulldozers and patients on stretchers in darkened corridors.
Another resident, Yahia Abu Auf, said there were still patients, medical workers and displaced people sheltering inside the medical compound after several patients had been taken to the nearby Ahli hospital. He said army bulldozers had plowed over a makeshift cemetery in Shifa’s courtyard.
“The situation is indescribable,” he said. “The occupation destroyed all sense of life here.”
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