The evacuation of the remaining patients in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has begun, the Palestinian Red Crescent says.
The rescue service says 14 ambulances arrived at the hospital today, and the evacuation has been coordinated with the United Nations and Doctors without Borders medical group.
Israel has been urging the evacuation of the hospital for weeks and coordinating the process since its troops took control of the medical center where it says Hamas had a command center and had been using as a base for its military operations.
Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesperson for Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, has said there were over 250 patients at the facility. Some 400 displaced people are also still sheltering in the facility.
Over the weekend, Israel and the World Health Organization coordinated the evacuation of 31 premature babies from Shifa Hospital to southern Gaza. Of them, 28 babies were later transferred to Egypt.
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