![Middle East conflict live updates: Israeli forces withdraw from al-Shifa Hospital Middle East conflict live updates: Israeli forces withdraw from al-Shifa Hospital](https://inkishaf.pk/wp-content/uploads/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4DFTKGBTDXS4KEGWNPUXFDX4IQ_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440)
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday its troops have completed their operation at al-Shifa Hospital and left the area, following a raid that lasted about two weeks and targeted militants “in close quarters encounters.” Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense, said emergency workers who arrived at dawn to recover bodies found that the hospital’s buildings were burned and shelled by artillery in a scene he described as “tragic in every sense of the word.”