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- Hundreds of people are reported to have left Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City - the site that Israeli forces have been searching for days
- "We raised our hands and carried white flags," a journalist who left the hospital tells the BBC
- He talks of gunfire and explosions overnight and says that bulldozers have dug huge holes in the hospital yard
- Doctors said the Israeli military ordered an evacuation but the IDF says it facilitated a safe route out after a request from the hospital director
- The Hamas-run health ministry says 120 patients remain at the hospital, along with premature babies - the BBC can't confirm the figures
- Israel accuses Hamas of running a command centre under the hospital - it has shown pictures of an alleged tunnel shaft and weapons as evidence so far
- Mark Regev, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier told US media that Palestinians should leave the southern city of Khan Younis for their safety
- The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 12,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel began its campaign against Hamas
- It began heavily bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostage in the 7 October attacks on Israel