Hundreds of people evacuated Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital on foot, an AFP journalist at the scene saw, after the hospital director said the Israeli army ordered the hospital emptied, the news outlet reported.

The health ministry said in a statement that 120 wounded were still at the facility, along with an unspecified number of premature babies, adding it was in touch with the Red Cross about the infants.

Officials said a few medical staff stayed behind to care for those who could not be moved. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees — displaced people, doctors and nurses, made their way towards the seafront.

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