GAZA: Hamas health official said Sunday that an Israeli air strike destroyed the cardiac ward of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, as fighting raged around the facility.

“The occupier (Israel) completely destroyed the cardiac department of Al-Shifa hospital… The two-storey building has been completely destroyed in an air strike,” Youssef Abu Rish, deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, told Media.

While witnesses confirmed a strike on the hospital, Israeli Military had earlier denied deliberately targeting the hospital.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of using medical facilities or tunnels underneath them as command centers and hideouts – a charge that Hamas denies.

An Israeli military statement on Sunday (12th of November, 2023) said soldiers “opened and secured a passage which enables the civilian population to evacuate, on foot and by ambulances, from the Shifa, Rantisi and Nasser hospitals.”

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