Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza, one day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients, Reuters reports.

Footage circulated by the health ministry — which Reuters could not immediately verify — showed damage to several buildings after the Israeli forces withdrew.

Medics said at least 44 of the facility’s 70-member team of the Kamal Adwan Hospital had been detained by the army. It later said the army had released 14 of them, including the hospital’s director.

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