Israeli forces advanced today to the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital, where doctors describe a dire situation: Fuel, medicine and food are running out for hundreds of patients and thousands of others sheltering.
Dozens of corpses are decomposing at the hospital, known as Al-Shifa, because there is no way to preserve or remove them, a chief nurse said.
Israeli and American officials say Hamas uses hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, as shields for its fighters and says that militants have built a vast command complex under the hospital.
Hamas and doctors at the hospital deny the existence of such a command center.
Israeli troops have reached at least two other hospitals in northern Gaza, stepping up their push to empty the facilities, according to Israeli military officials, as fighting around them intensifies.
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