Updated On: 25 January, 2024 07:38 AM IST | Rafah | Agencies
Several hundred of these are patients or displaced people seeking shelter

Israeli soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing battles with Hamas militants. Pic/AP
Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants Wednesday near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis, where medics said hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were unable to leave because of the fighting.
Medics say hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were unable to leave the main hospital in Khan Younis because of the fighting Wednesday. The Israeli military said its forces were battling militants there after encircling the city the day before.