found evidence a misfired rocket from gaza was likely responsible for a deadly blast. but this appears to be the exception. it s called the qatari hospital. reporter: israel and u.s. intelligence say hamas used many of these hospitals as command and control centers, a claim hamas denies. while protected under international humanitarian law, a hospital s protection during war is not absolute. there are instances where those protection can be lost, and that is for such time as they are being used for military activities to sort of further the activities of an enemy. that does not give carte blanche to militaries to launch an attack however they want. reporter: this is gaza s second largest hospital. we modeled out how weeks of israeli attacks around it caused severe damage and civilian harm.
attack the hospital except in mid-november when apparently returning fire from hamas militants. releasing footage as evidence, 21 people were killed. the idf said they were terrorists but acknowledge civilians were still inside. over at the hospital, displaced civilians were sheltering in the courtyard where aerial attacks were intensifying. an idf legal adviser again told cnn they did not attack al shifa. the weapons experts told cnn this is a remnant of an israeli illumination shell. a couple hours later and the maternity ward is hit. here part of an israeli tank missile is found. within we can see them reporter: al shifa was one of the hospitals the idf and the u.s. say hamas were operating
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and they find themselves engaged and we have another war. look, it s in israel s interest to find some resolution. and i think that s why you are starting to see pressure now coming from the likes of turkey, jordan, lebanon. can they help put pressure on hamas to say hamas, you have got to back down, this is not helping anybody. that pressure has not been forthcoming. the israelis have obviously a tremendous military advantage, the site you look at the casualty comparisons it s unbelievable. 200 to 1 in terms of who is dying and they have the protection of our dome. i think it s israel s interest not to go into gaza but to find a way to have peace. they are there now. looking live at early friday morning gaza city, charles? there is one piece of news that hasn t really been publicized. the u.n. agency that is in gaza that s more radical than even hamas is, but the agency had to admit after delay of a day, that it found in one of its schools,
[ speaking in foreign language ] israel says its forces fired from the sea as this team of commandos belonging to hamas stormed a beach north of the gaza strip. the jerusalem post is reporting five of those commandos is killed and one israeli soldier wounded. israel said today it has warned the gaza palestinians either to halt their attacks against israel with the small, inaccurate rockets, or face a ground incursion by the mighty israeli military, and soon, perhaps tonight. the israelis say hamas rocket attacks have numbered today in the dozens with no reported israeli deaths or injuries. israeli air strikes have killed 19 people in gaza today, including two children. palestinian sources say the kids were in homes whose family members are believed to have links to hamas. so as you re looking at the video, an intensely dangerous situation there. and especially so in gaza, where