The Palestinian Red Crescent has said staff and patients from al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza were trapped in ambulances for 20 hours after Israeli troops forced them to evacuate.

According to the organisation, troops shot and wounded two people who tried to clear a road as they left overnight.

The ambulances then had to turn back and wait outside the hospital, it said.

Israel’s military said its intelligence indicated that “terrorists are using civilian infrastructure” in the area.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Israeli troops were besieging both al-Amal and the nearby Nasser hospital, amid intense hostilities in the west of the city of Khan Younis.

Meanwhile, fighting is continuing around al-Shifa hospital, in northern Gaza, where the military says it has killed 170 “terrorists” and detained about 500 suspects linked to Hamas or Islamic Jihad in a raid that began a week ago.

The military says hospitals have been used by Hamas as bases and has released videos and photos to support its claim. Hamas denies the accusation.

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