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Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital is a symbol of Palestinian resilience - but Israel claims it has a dark side

news.sky.com Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital is a symbol of Palestinian resilience - but Israel claims it has a dark side

What isn't in doubt is the enormous pressure the hospital has been operating under and the extraordinary courage of its doctors and nurses. They have been operating against the odds as the war has closed in around them.

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Haunted?
- That would make a great movie. To bad we can’t film on location.

I love how anti-Israel people are here. News will say IDF found evidence of this and that, shows videos and photos. And everyone goes in unison "fake". Hamas licks finger and lifts into the wind and goes bajilion dead from IDF attack, which was actually their own rocket. And everyone cries how civilians are dead and IDF needs to stop. No proof needed. And when those few who are actually in disbelief ask for evidence of this... ooh no rocket it dissolved.
- I didn’t know Hamas invaded Gaza, thanks.
  
  They did invade Israel though. And hold Gazans hostage. But then again, many people have issues discerning Palestinian cause from Hamas cause.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
It is Gaza's biggest hospital, a sprawling complex of 22 acres, housing emergency and neonatal facilities as well as specialist units.
More than that it has become a place that is symbolic of Palestinian resilience where doctors have performed heroically, saving lives in the most difficult of conditions.
They almost certainly cannot speak entirely freely and when Hamas took over Gaza in 2007 it fired hundreds of staff affiliated with the more moderate Palestinian Fatah faction.
Israel, which has now carried out a targeted raid on al Shifa, claims there is a vast tunnel network under the hospital extending out across the Gaza Strip.
More recently though, visiting medical professionals have expressed scepticism the hospital was being used by Hamas in a military sense anymore.
When Hamas violently seized control of Gaza in 2007 it allegedly purged al Shifa of doctors who were not compliant to its rule.
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