Gaza's al-Shifa hospital in ruins after two-week Israeli raid
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Israel's military says it has pulled out of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after a two-week raid that left most of the major medical complex in ruins.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said dozens of bodies have been found and locals said nearby areas were razed.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops had killed and detained hundreds of "terrorists" and found weapons and intelligence "throughout the hospital".
The IDF said it raided al-Shifa because Hamas had regrouped there.
The two-week operation saw intense fighting and Israeli air strikes in nearby buildings and the surrounding area.
Wards were attacked because Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives were using them as a base, the IDF said, accusing Hamas fighters of fighting inside medical departments, setting off explosives and burning hospital buildings.
Photos showed that al-Shifa's main surgery building, which housed the intensive care unit, and the neighbouring building where the emergency, general surgery and orthopaedics departments were located had been destroyed.
Dozens of bodies, some decomposed, had been found in and around the medical complex which was now "completely out of service", the health ministry said.
A doctor told AFP news agency more than 20 bodies had been recovered, some crushed by withdrawing vehicles.
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