Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants Wednesday near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city, where medics said hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were trapped by the fighting.
Israel has ordered residents to leave a swath of downtown Khan Younis, including Nasser Hospital and two smaller medical facilities, as the country pushes ahead with its three-and-a-half-month-old offensive against Hamas.
The United Nations humanitarian office said the area was home to 88,000 Palestinians and was hosting another 425,000 displaced by fighting elsewhere.
A photo taken Wednesday provides a view of a portion of the Gaza Strip near the border fence in Rafah, where
