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Israel-Hamas war: Al-Shifa, the hospital at the heart of all the battles

11/14/2023, 7:03:42 PM

Highlights: Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest in the Gaza Strip. Located in the heart of the city of the same name, the site is in the middle of the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas. Dozens of decomposing bodies, in a suffocating smell, can be seen at the gates of the hospital. The hospital has become, in spite of himself, the symbol of a war whose quick end is hard to imagine. The Israeli army is believed to be cramming thousands of civilians into the hospital complex.


The Israeli army is at the gates of the largest hospital complex in the Gaza Strip, where thousands of civilians are believed to be crammed into the army.

Dozens of decomposing bodies, in a suffocating smell. This picture, described on Tuesday, November 14 by a journalist collaborating with Agence France-Presse, illustrates the dramatic humanitarian situation in which Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, is located. Located in the heart of the city of the same name, the site is in the middle of the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas, after the terrorist attack on the soil of the Jewish state on October 7. And has become, in spite of himself, the symbol of a war whose quick end is hard to imagine.

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