Israel, which has accused Hamas militants of using hospitals for military purposes, said it was carrying out a 'precise and limited operation' at the facility with 'no obligation' for patients or staff to evacuate.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Israel sent troops into a hospital in war-torn Gaza on Thursday where it said hostages may have been held, as medics warned the key medical facility was operating in"near impossible" conditions.
The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza reported that thousands of people who had sought refuge in the complex, including patients, have been made to leave in recent days. The World Health Organization has described Nasser Hospital as a critical facility"for all of Gaza", where only a minority of hospitals are even partly operational.Roughly 130 hostages are still believed to be in Gaza after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
The city now hosts more than half of Gaza's population, with displaced people"crammed" into less than 20 percent of the territory, according to UN humanitarian agency OCHA. In Cairo, efforts to secure a ceasefire entered a third day, with mediators from the United States, Qatar and Egypt trying to broker a deal to halt the fighting and see the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Families of the hostages protested outside the defence ministry in Tel Aviv to put pressure on the government to agree to a new prisoner exchange.
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