The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, has said “there are only doctors, patients and displaced people” inside the Al-Shifa Hospital.

“We have nothing to be afraid of or hide,” Al Jazeera Arabic quoted al-Qudra as saying after Israeli forces raided the enclave’s biggest medical facility.

According to medical staff, an estimated 650 patients remain in the hospital. Between 5,000 and 7,000 displaced civilians are also trapped inside the hospital grounds and under constant fire from Israeli snipers and drones, according to the health ministry in Gaza.