Raid continues on in al-Shifa Hospital, while Israeli forces bomb residential neighbourhoods

Middle East Eye’s contributor Mohammed al-Hajjar is currently around 1 kilometre away from Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza. He describes the current situation in the past few moments: 

Israeli forces raided the al-Shifa Hospital this morning and expelled medical staff. There are around 9,000 people at the hospital, from staff to wounded people and displaced individuals. They were forced to leave to the eastern side. 

People are being searched by Israeli forces, rooms are being searched, even in the cardiovascular and kidney specialist wards.

In the last few hours, there has been heavy shelling in Gaza in al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, al-Darraj neighbourhood and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. Dozens of people were killed in their homes and many more were wounded. 

Drones circulated above the Baptist Hospital and before the storming of al-Shifa there was constant bombing in its vicinity, as well as in the Indonesian Hospital.

At the moment, the sound of bombing has slightly reduced, the army is focusing on southwest Gaza city, in areas such as Sheikh Radwan and Al Nasr.