Israeli forces have entered Gaza’s largest hospital in what the military says is a “targeted” operation searching for Hamas infrastructure and weaponsA journalist inside the hospital tells the BBC that soldiers are going room to room and interrogating people but there is no shooting taking place

1. He said commandos had entered the main emergency department, with tanks also in the hospital area
2. Israel accuses Hamas of running a command centre in tunnels under the hospital and the US says it has intelligence that supports this
3. Hamas denies this and says the raid on the hospital is a war crime – hundreds of civilians have been sheltering there, alongside patients and staff
4. The White House says civilians must be protected, while the UN’s humanitarian chief says “hospitals are not battlegrounds”
5. Israel began striking Gaza after Hamas’s 7 October attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage

The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since – of whom more than 4,500 were children

Reports Israeli troops leaving Al-Shifa hospital

A journalist who is trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital says troops have now left the building and have moved outside its walls.

The Israel Defense Forces have not officially commented on the claim or said when the operation is due to end.

The BBC has not been able to independently confirm whether the troops have left Al-Shifa.

Separately, BBC Arabic’s Ethar Shalaby spoke to Dr Mohamed Abu Salamiya, director-general of Al-Shifa hospital, who said soldiers had left the hospital’s speciality surgery building.

However, he couldn’t confirm whether they had also vacated other buildings in the complex.

He said: “I can still see lots of tanks at the gates of the hospital”.

Dr Salamiya also accused the Israeli troops of damaging specialist medical equipment during the raid.