Israel troops raid hospital in the centre of Gaza war

Hours after Israeli troops stormed through the gates of Gaza's biggest hospital in the night, soldiers interrogated patients in the compound's courtyard while other Palestinians stood stripped to their underwear.

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"All men 16 years and above, raise your hands," a soldier shouted in accented Arabic through a loudspeaker at those sheltering inside Al-Shifa hospital, which has been at the centre of fierce urban combat for days.

Details from the raid remained sketchy, but officials from Israel and Gaza presented different accounts of what was happening at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City: The Israeli army released video showing soldiers carrying boxes labelled as "baby food" and "medical supplies," while health officials talked of terrified staff and patients as troops moved through the buildings.

About 1,000 male Palestinians, their hands above their heads, were soon led into the vast hospital courtyard, some of them stripped naked by Israeli soldiers checking them for weapons or explosives, the journalist told AFP.

Hours later, some 200 remained in their underwear, forced to stand beside tanks used in the military incursion into the medical facility.

The army labelled the raid a "precise and targeted" operation against Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that launched the October 7 attacks.

Since their raid on the facility, the military is yet to produce any evidence to back their claim of Hamas running a command centre beneath the hospital.