The occupation turns the Nasser Medical Complex into a military barracks, and Hamas denies the Israeli claims. The director of the complex's surgical hospital, Dr.

Nahed Abu Ta'imah, warned that the situation inside the complex is catastrophic. The Israeli army said on Thursday that it had arrested a number of suspects at Nasser Hospital and that its operations there were continuing. Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said those ordered by Israel to evacuate the hospital faced an impossible choice between staying "and becoming a potential target"