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The United Nations said Sunday that it had sent an inspection mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, a focal point of Israel’s military campaign in the strip, and warned that lack of fuel, clean water and other essentials had turned the facility into a “death zone.”
The U.N.’s report on conditions in the Gaza City hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, came as fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militants intensified in northern parts of the city for a second day. Israeli troops are seeking to extend their control of what they say is a key urban stronghold of Hamas’s military wing from the coastline toward the east.
In a joint statement, the U.N. agencies that led the mission to Al-Shifa said 291 patients and 25 healthcare workers remained at the hospital after the Israeli military on Saturday ordered the evacuation of some 2,500 people sheltering there.
Israel has yet to show clear evidence of what it said are complexes under the hospital used by Hamas’s military wing. The Israeli military has said that it is slowly combing through the hospital in a delicate operation that could take many days.
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