For over per week, Israeli forces have occupied al Shifa hospital, one of many few remaining massive medical services in northern Gaza.
On the bottom, tanks, troopers and heavy tools take the place of ambulances and sufferers. Seen above is proof of probably irreparable injury.
On 26 March, a fireplace occurred on the grounds of al Shifa hospital. Clearly identifiable on satellite tv for pc imagery captured on the day by Planet, smoke will be seen rising from the hospital’s grounds, centred round its surgical constructing and emergency ward. 
The imagery seems to match footage and pictures captured on the bottom that have been shared on the identical day by Israeli journalist Yinon Magal. 
Posted by Mr Magal on Telegram and X, {a photograph} exhibits al-Shifa’s surgical procedure constructing with fireplace clearly seen burning throughout its third flooring.
The lined bridge previously connecting it to the emergency division has been destroyed.
A video, filmed later, exhibits a prisoner being led in entrance of the identical constructing, the entrance of which is closely fireplace broken. An armoured car seems parked in entrance of it.
A screenshot from IDF footage exhibiting the emergency division (left) and surgical constructing (proper). Pics: Planet Labs PBC and IDF through Reuters
A video launched by the IDF on 25 March confirms that the injury proven to the constructing is latest.
Whereas the precise time of recording is unknown, the presence of tanks and observe marks within the courtyard match satellite tv for pc imagery captured after the Israelis entered the positioning in latest days. In it, no fireplace injury is seen.
A video posted by Mr Magal alongside the footage filmed outdoors exhibits males kneeling in a broken hall. Furnishings in places of work has been overturned and graffiti is seen on partitions.
The caption accompanying these photographs implies all of them present al Shifa hospital, nonetheless, Sky Information was unable to find out the precise location proven on this video.
Whereas Israeli forces have entered al Shifa hospital earlier than, their latest presence started on the night time of 17 to 18 March.
Pic: Maxar Applied sciences
Claiming Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants have been current on the hospital, Israeli troops and plane launched an operation culminating within the encirclement and occupation of Al Shifa.
Footage recorded nearby demonstrates the extended nature of this preliminary operation.
Recorded sporadically from the higher flooring of a constructing near the hospital and posted between the hours of two.59am and 12.21pm, it exhibits explosions and the presence of Israeli armoured automobiles. The sound of gunfire, plane and explosions will be heard all through.
Pic: Planet Labs PBC and IDF
The preliminary raid concentrating on al Shifa hospital was additionally documented by the IDF, which posted a video consisting of aerial footage recorded in quite a few places within the space.
Whereas the IDF captioned two of the clips ‘Hearth towards IDF troops from the Shifa Hospital,’ Sky Information discovered they have been filmed close by, outdoors of the hospital’s grounds.
The 2 remaining items of aerial footage have been filmed within the advanced, one at its predominant entrance, and the opposite to the north of the surgical procedure constructing.
They present people transferring by the hospital grounds and taking pictures from the courtyard, between buildings, and inside a hospital constructing.
Israeli armoured automobiles in and across the hospital. Pic: Planet Labs PBC
Excessive-definition satellite tv for pc imagery captured by Planet on 20 March exhibits Israeli forces maintained a heavy presence at al Shifa within the days after the preliminary raid.
Giant numbers of armoured automobiles are clearly seen on this imagery, grouped collectively in an space within the south of the hospital’s grounds, and lined up alongside a highway bordering it to the north.
Pic: Planet Labs PBC
Since then, footage and pictures have emerged from throughout the advanced. Whereas the precise date on which they have been recorded is unclear, newly piled earth signifies it was filmed after the Israeli troops entered the advanced in mid-March.
First shared publicly on social media on March 20, they present the hospital’s courtyard close to its predominant gate. In it, massive numbers of males wearing white will be seen being detained and readied for transport.
Israel has claimed over 170 militants have been killed and an additional 500 detained by its forces throughout its operation at al Shifa hospital. These figures and characterisations haven’t been independently verified.
By way of official channels, the IDF has shared images and movies documenting its presence within the grounds of al-Shifa hospital.
Pic: Planet Labs PBC
In a single video, troopers enter transfer by rooms positioned within the hospital’s outpatient constructing. Stopping in a single, they show a group of grenades, ammunition and different supplies purportedly left by militants.
In one other video, Lieutenant Colonel Naor Bublil of the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion stands in entrance of an MRI machine earlier than exhibiting weapons and ammunition he claims have been discovered close by.
The origin of the weapons displayed in these movies haven’t been independently verified.