Over the last few days, one specific area in Gaza has become a focus for Israel's

war against Hamas.

Gaza's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa.

Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest, now a battleground.

Israel's accusing Hamas fighters of hiding in hospitals and using the Shiva Hospital complex as its main command center.

A dire and desperate situation essentially saying that the hospital has stopped its basic functions.

Our colleague Chau deng has been reporting on the hospital.

What happened in the last couple of days is that it became very clear that the Israeli military was closing in on the hospital.

Doctors inside were saying that they were hearing more explosions outside and so essentially the hospital became sealed off.

Were you able to reach anybody in there?

I was.

You know I've been able to speak to some doctors who remained at the hospital. I've also been in touch with this

nurse and he used to be able to make daily trips to Shifab And on Saturday he said that, you know, he basically risked his life

walking the 300 meters from his office to the hospital. And when he got to the emergency ward of the hospitals, he said he couldn't believe what he was seeing,

that there were very few medical staff around and still hundreds of injured patients.

And those patients, I couldn't even believe

that he had made it to the hospital because they knew that the explosions and the

gunfire outside was so bad and this nurse said that there was very little food and water, very little

medical supplies in the hospital. He kind of did what he could, it sounded like, to

sort of bandage up people and

provide some basic services but by the end of the day he was saying that he was so

thirsty and he felt like he needed to head back because there was no water at the hospital and he was

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