Gaza's health ministry says Israeli soldiers have raided and torched the Kamal Adwan hospital - the last major medical facility in the north. It's understood that troops detained many patients and staff for interrogation. The World Health Organization says key departments have been burnt, meaning the hospital is now out of service. Israel denies setting the facility on fire, and claims Hamas has been using it as a base during the conflict.
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00:00Gaza's health ministry says Israeli soldiers have raided and torched the Kamal Adwan hospital,
00:07the last major medical facility in the north.
00:10It's understood that troops detained many patients and staff for interrogation.
00:15The World Health Organization says key departments have been burnt,
00:18meaning the hospital is now out of service.
00:21Israel denies setting the facility on fire
00:24and claims Hamas has been using it as a base during the conflict.
00:29We were taken for interrogation around 3 p.m.
00:36They stripped us naked and left us there until sunset and no one to aid us.
00:41We were left in the dust and then one soldier would come every once in a while
00:45and would curse at us and spit at us.
00:48It was very ugly.
00:50They were shooting through the windows.
00:55There were artillery shells by the gates.
00:58We came out at 7.30 a.m. and did not know what to do or where to go.
01:03They asked us to leave Kamal Adwan and head to Fakora.
01:07The way there, there is no road, just deep sand.
01:10My father kept having to pull me out of the sand,
01:13piles of sand that is difficult to walk in with an injury.