Summary

Israel says its military is carrying out an operation against Hamas in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

An eyewitness inside the hospital tells the BBC they saw tanks and commando soldiers enter its main emergency department.

The US says it has intelligence backing Israel's claim that Hamas has a command centre under Al-Shifa - Hamas denies this.

Earlier, a doctor at the hospital, which is short of fuel, said 200 patients had been buried there in a mass grave.

Thousands of people sleeping in tents in Gaza face a night of torrential rain.

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.

Source: BBC

BDST: 0919 HRS, NOV 15, 2023
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