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Newshour: 11/11/2023 13:06 GMT: Gaza's main hospital under constant fire - surgeon

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Gaza's main hospital under constant fire - surgeon

11/11/2023 13:06 GMT

11/11/2023 13:06 GMT: Gaza's main hospital under constant fire - surgeon

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Fighting has been continuing around the main hospitals in Gaza City

Fighting has been continuing around the main hospitals in Gaza City.

A surgeon at Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has told the BBC the main intensive care unit there has been hit.

Marwan Abu Saada, a surgeon currently inside Al-Shifa hospital, says sounds of shooting and bombardments echo "every second" and that no-one can leave or enter the hospital.

The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath the medical facility, which Hamas denies. Israel has previously said it does not fire on hospitals - but has today acknowledged "intense fighting against Hamas in the vicinity of the area in question".

Also in the programme: the rival factions in Sudan's civil war have accused each other of blowing up a bridge over the River Nile; and we'll hear about high-altitude forests that are being restored in the Andes.

(Photo shows patients and internally-displaced people at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023. Credit: Khader Al Zanoun/AFP)

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