Occupation forces bombed ambulance convoys in front of the gate of Al-Shifa Medical Complex three times, killing and injuring dozens of people, including the wounded being carried in the ambulances.

Occupation tanks stationed 200 meters from the northern and southern sides of the compound prevented the arrival of ambulances.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announces that Al-Shifa compound was out of services as a result of occupation forces' siege and artillery shelling

The hospital's management dug a mass grave to bury the martyrs in the hospital yard. 

Occupation forces stormed the hospital after a six-day siege, entering the compound from the western side using heavy gunfire, shelling the coronary care clinic, and deploying snipers in the vicinity of the compound. The occupation forces first raided the new surgery building and emergency building where patients and medical staff were located before moving the rest of the hospital's departments, blowing up internal doors.

Occupation forces forcibly evacuated about 2,500 people from the hospital under the supervision of the WHO and a team from the UN. The occupation forces had ordered the Director General of Al-Shifa, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, to evacuate the buildings, but the medical staff refused at the time.

Occupation forces arrested Director Dr. Abu Salmiya and a number of medical staff during their forced evacuation to the southern areas of Gaza

Occupation forces withdrew from Al-Shifa Hospital after nearly completely evacuating it for patients, staff, and displaced people, blowing up its facilities and rendering it inoperable, while at least 19 health workers and 259 injured and seriously ill patients remained at the compound.

The hospital partially resumed operations by operating only the kidney department and serving 50 patients for one hour per patient.

UNOHA reported that Israeli forces launched an operation in the area of Al-Shifa Hospital and distributed leaflets ordering displaced people to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip before besieging and raiding the hospital.

 Local media reported that occupation forces targeted the area with naval, aerial, and artillery shelling and heavy sniper and quadcopter fire. Tanks also advanced towards the compound and blocked the main gate to the hospital.

Local media also reported that the occupation forces targeted a gathering of displaced people inside the hospital, including those who approached windows. 

The occupation forces stormed the specialized surgery building, and the reception department of the hospital.

The Gaza Media Office in Gaza stated that it received information about the execution by the occupation army of a number of children, civilians, patients and displaced persons inside of the hospital.

Shooting and violent explosions continued in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, as occupation forces blew up the specialized building, containing a the largest stock of medicines in Gaza.

The occupation forces also continued to detain displaced people, patients, and medical staff.

The Ministry of Health stated that the occupation forces attacked several buildings and burned down the arterial department of the al-Shifa Hospital.

The occupation forces also blew up and burned buildings on the northern side of the hospital and bulldozed land inside of it.

According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, about 1,500 Palestinians were killed, injured or missing, half of them women and children, as a result of the Israeli massacre in and around the Shifa compound. The Euro-Med's preliminary estimates indicated that the occupation forces destroyed more than 1,200 housing units in the vicinity of the compound, and at least 22 patients died due to the siege of the compound.

About 400 martyrs were killed in and around Al-Shifa complex after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

A new mass grave was discovered and ten bodies were recovered at Al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week siege by the occupation forces.inistry of Health sources also reported that in addition to the ten bodies found, dozens more were discovered decomposed, burned, mutilated and buried collectively or individually in various places in the hospital complex. Nearly 400 martyrs' bodies have been recovered since the attack ended on April 1, 2024.

The Gaza Media Office announced the discovery of a third mass grave at the hospital and the recovery of 49 bodies.