Al Jazeera has spoken to Palestinians who fled the scene of Israel’s bombing of a clinic-turned-shelter, previously run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), near Gaza City.

“Last night, we were sitting when suddenly everyone started running. People told us we had 10 minutes before the clinic would be bombed. I grabbed the kids and ran without taking anything,” Basma Zindah, a displaced Palestinian mother, told Al Jazeera.

“We moved about 200 metres away and waited. The strike hit the building. Around 1 or 2am, when things calmed down, we went back, but everything was gone. The tents were torn apart, everything destroyed,” she added.

Another displaced resident, Ghaleb Tafesh, said people previously relied on the clinic for treatment. “After it went out of service, it became a shelter for displaced families,” Tafesh told Al Jazeera.

“Last night, while we were having dinner, we suddenly heard people shouting, calling for evacuation. There was no time to take anything: no food, no clothes, no bedding. We just ran.”

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