The Israeli military said that more than 350 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants have so far been detained at the hospital and a total of 800 people have been questioned.
In recent days, Hamas spokespeople have said that the dead announced in previous Israeli statements were not fighters but patients and displaced people.
Israel faced heavy criticism last November when troops first raided the hospital. The troops uncovered tunnels there, which they said had been used as command and control centres by Hamas.
Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian pharmacologist Mohammad Al-Nono outside Al Shifa hospital after they ordered him to evacuate, along with some colleagues, his family said. A member of the family said they learned about his death from other doctors. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Nono is the brother of Taher Al-Nono, who serves as the media adviser to Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Hamas media said 19 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City on Saturday and several others wounded at the Kuwait roundabout while they waited for aid trucks.
Displaced Palestinians pass a crater on the coastal road after fleeing the Al-Shifa hospital area in north Gaza.Credit: Bloomberg
“We survived death, they shot at us, there are many martyrs, there are many injured, we almost died to get our children a bite to eat,” said Alaa al-Khoudary, a resident of Gaza City who had just returned from the Kuwait roundabout carrying a bag of aid.
The Israeli military said the incident was being investigated, but “preliminary findings have determined that there was no aerial strike against the convoy, nor were there incidents found of IDF forces firing at the people at the aid convoy”.
“The IDF facilitated an aid convoy to deliver food to people in northern Gaza. Upon its approach to the designated distribution point, the convoy was intercepted and looted by hundreds of Gazans, north of the humanitarian corridor,” the Israeli military statement said.
In Rafah, where over a million people have been sheltering, health officials said an Israeli airstrike on a house killed eight people and wounded others.
The Israeli military said it killed at least 20 gunmen in airstrikes and close-encounter combat in central Gaza and in the southern area of Khan Younis.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing on Saturday.
It was time for Israel to give an “ironclad commitment” for unfettered access to humanitarian goods throughout Gaza, said Guterres, who also called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
Separately, the armed wing of Hamas said in a statement that a 34-year-old Israeli hostage had died due to “lack of medicine and food”. Israel said last month it had pronounced dead 31 of the more than 100 remaining hostages in Gaza.
More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave.
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The war was triggered when Hamas fighters crossed into southern Israel on a rampage on October 7, killing 1200 people and capturing 253 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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