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staff, large numbers of displaced people are sheltering in the hospital. dr nick maynard has worked at al shifa hospital for many years. he s trained medics in gaza and was carrying out surgeries at al shifa as recently as may. he says patients who leave the hospital are unlikely to survive and described how people at the hospital said the idf were treating people there. well, they certainly do not describe the israeli defence force assisting the evacuations. i ve been watching al jazeera this morning. i ve also been in direct contact with a gazan doctor who herself is in contact with people there and they are working under the most appallingly hostile conditions, the patients that are being evacuated. it s almost inconceivable to me that they will survive. this notion that they re going to be evacuated to a safe area is a ludicrous notion. if you ask me, the roads are almost impassable. there are no functioning hospitals in gaza at the moment. the only hospital that was func ....
in the hospital. tom bateman is our correspodent injerusalem. he told me about the israeli military s denial of an evacuation order. i ve denied ordering it, but they don t deny an evacuation is taking place. what we ve had is a report from the afp news agency, first of all, a journalist working for them at the scene who said that, via loudspeakers, that there was an order to evacuate the hospital within an hour earlier this morning, he said. now, he reported that the director of the hospital had been phoned by the military and instructed for everyone to leave. basically all for patients, staff and displaced people to make their way, he said on foot to the seafront. now, the israeli military has since issued a statement saying there was no order for people to evacuate. it said it was assisting an evacuation operation at the request of the hospital s director. it also said that medical personnel would be able to stay there for people who couldn t get out. but clearly, yo ....
staff, large numbers of displaced people are sheltering in the hospital. our correspodent injerusalem, tom bateman, has more. they have denied ordering it, but they don t deny that an evacuation is taking place. we have had a report from the afp news agency, a journalist working for them at the scene said that via loudspeakers there was an order to evacuate the hospital within the hour earlier this morning. he reported the director of the hospital had been phoned by the military and instructed for everyone to leave, for patients and staff and displaced people to make their way on foot to the seafront. the israeli military has since issued a statement saying there was no order for people to evacuate. it said it was assisting an evacuation operation at the request of the hospital s director. it also said that medical personnel would be able to stay there for people who couldn t get out. but clearly there are further moves now to evacuate people in the hospital. we have ha ....
hello and thank you forjoining me for another edition of unspun world, where we find out from the bbc s unmatched team of correspondents and broadcasters what s really going on in the world. israeli forces are encircling gaza s hospitals, but what s their basic strategy? the israeli army can probably go in and patrol the shattered streets of the gaza strip for some indefinite period. but what then? who is actually going to rule gaza? the us and china why are the chinese noticeably less antagonistic than they used to be? the united states is china s biggest threat, but it s also china s biggest customer, and they really need to do some good customer relations at the moment. and can spain s interim prime minister stave off catalan independence? he s doing this because it will reduce those tensions that catalonia has been seeing, really, over the last decade. western support for israel s war against hamas in gaza has been tested as never before by the bombardment and sea ....