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Israeli forces have launched an overnight raid on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said the IDF was carrying out a “high precision operation in limited areas” of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IDF said “senior Hamas terrorists have regrouped” inside the hospital and are using it to launch attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eyewitnesses described a state of panic inside the complex in Gaza City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recorded call with his brother posted on a WhatsApp group, one man said: “Tanks are surrounding us. We are hiding inside the tent. We hear tank fire in the vicinity of the compound.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heavy gunfire could be heard around the hospital in unverified footage posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a voice message sent to journalists from inside the hospital, Muhammad Al-Sayyid said: “The soldiers here inside the complex there are dead and wounded, and the soldiers arrested some young men. The situation here is catastrophic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IDF had not publicly signalled in advance that it was planning to launch a new operation at al-Shifa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a video message posted in the early hours, IDF chief spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said the Israeli military was responding to “concrete intelligence which demanded immediate action”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the hospital would be able to continue functioning during the raid and told patients and staff they did not have to evacuate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Israeli forces have launched an overnight raid on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said the IDF was carrying out a “high precision operation in limited areas” of the hospital. The IDF said “senior Hamas terrorists have regrouped” inside the hospital and are using it to launch attacks. Eyewitnesses described a state of panic inside the complex in Gaza City. In a recorded call with his brother posted on a WhatsApp group, one man said: “Tanks are surrounding us. We are hiding inside the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38198,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions\/38198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}