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Hamas says medical department ‘destroyed’ in Israel’s Gaza hospital raid

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The Hamas-run health ministry said Thursday an Israeli raid had “destroyed” a medical department and damaged two others at Gaza’s largest hospital, where hundreds of patients, staff and displaced Palestinians were sheltering.

Israeli forces who went into Al-Shifa hospital on Wednesday had “destroyed the radiology service, and bombed the burns and dialysis departments”, health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra told AFP.

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