Eyewitness recalls detention following Israel's latest raid on al-Shifa hospital

A man released from Israel's custody following its latest raid on Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital spoke to Middle East Eye about his short detention.

Huthifa, a pseudonym given to him for safety reasons, was detained for over five hours, and said he and other men were subject to a strip search with hands tied and eyes blindfolded.

"I couldn't see anything, but I could hear sporadic gunfire and the soldiers screaming at us, sometimes in Hebrew and sometimes in Arabic," he said.

"They kept us all night until dawn in the cold, without our clothes, before they left us and ordered us to head south," he added. "They told us whoever stays in the north will be killed immediately."

Following his release, people who were also detained told Huthifa they saw Israeli soldiers taking men to different places in the hospital, "shooting them, and killing them directly.

"The number is large, we do not know how many [were taken]."

Reporting by Maha Hussaini.