Speaking to Al Jazeera, journalist Jihad Abu Shanab has said Israeli forces instructed those leaving Al-Shifa Hospital to leave through Salah al-Din street.

“However, we received accounts from eyewitnesses that Israeli soldiers are deployed along Salah al-Din [street]. This is the road separating the northern part of Gaza from the south. The Israeli occupying forces set up a checkpoint where men are denied access to the south, while women are allowed to leave,” the news outlet reports.