Top updates: Israeli forces storm Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital

A look at the top developments from Israel’s war on Gaza:

• The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday stormed the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, saying it is carrying out “a precise and targeted operation against [militant group] Hamas in a specified area” of the medical complex. Al-Shifa is the largest hospital in Gaza.
• The military operation spread panic among those sheltered in the Al-Shifa hospital, Al Jazeera quoted a doctor at the facility as saying. Around 650 patients and between 5,000 to 7,000 refugees are trapped inside the complex, Hamas said on Tuesday. Staff had been forced to bury 179 bodies in a “mass grave” in the hospital’s courtyard after the Israeli forces encircled the complex, the hospital’s Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya told news agency AFP on Tuesday. Seven babies and 29 intensive care patients have died since the hospital stopped taking in new patients.
• The United States on Tuesday said that it has gathered intelligence that supports Israel’s claims of hospitals in Gaza and tunnel networks under them being used as a cover for military operations by Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, a paramilitary group. Hamas has denied the allegations.
• United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday discussed measures to secure the release of over 200...

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