Deadly air strikes pounded other areas of the Gaza Strip earlier today, while fighting raged in several flashpoints located across the territory, AFP reports.

At least 60 people died in Gaza during the night, the health ministry said today.

Meanwhile, the ministry said the Israeli military had withdrawn tanks and vehicles from the complex housing the Al-Shifa Hospital. “Dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, have been recovered from in and around the Al-Shifa medical complex,” it said in a statement.

The Israeli military “withdrew from the Al-Shifa medical complex after burning down the complex buildings and putting it completely out of service”, it said. “The scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large.”

An AFP journalist on the scene said several buildings inside the complex had been damaged, with some areas showing damage from fire. A doctor told AFP more than 20 bodies had been recovered and that some had been crushed by withdrawing vehicles.