
AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL BATTLE FULL BREAKDOWN: Minute by Minute Chain of Events
According to the reports in the Gaza media networks:
Time 01:00 | The IDF forces formally inform the Hazati Ministry of Health that they intend to enter Shifa Hospital soon.
Time 01:15 | At Shifa Hospital, partial falls are reported in the media.
Time 01:30 | IDF forces began advancing towards the entrance of the Shifa medical complex.
Time 01:45 | IDF special forces have begun a partial entry into the western side of Shifa.
02:00 | Senior officials in Shifa report the sounds of gunfire from the entrance to the medical complex.
02:30| A doctor in Shifa, to the Gaza media: "We will stay with our patients at Shifa Hospital until the end."
02:45 | The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza told Al Jazeera: "The occupation sent a message to my phone and said that the target of their activity in Shifa is Hamas."
03:00 | Hamas: "We consider the occupation and President Biden responsible for the attack on the Shifa medical complex and the lives of everyone there."
03:15 | An IDF spokesman told CNN: "During the last few days we tried to evacuate Shifa Hospital - our activity is against Hamas and with the aim of locating abductees."
03:30 | Hamas' government communications office: "The occupation soldiers are storming patient rooms inside Shifa Hospital."
03:45 | Hamas' government communications office: "The attack on the Shifa medical complex is a war crime."
03:45 | Islamic Jihad: "The United States is complicit in the crime that the enemy is now committing in the attack on Shifa Hospital."
[7:56 am, 15/11/2023] Greg Leb: 03:50| The Ministry of Health in Gaza: "Dozens of soldiers entered the emergency building in the Shifa compound. Tanks of the Israeli army entered the area of the medical compound."
03:55 | The Ministry of Health in Gaza: "Dozens of soldiers entered the building in the Shifa compound"
04:00 | In a phone call, the IDF asks the director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, who is staying at Shifa Hospital, to follow the orders - the hospital director responded: "I work as a doctor and perform my duties in the Shifa compound. I do not cooperate with you."
04:15 | The director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza told the Al Jazeera network: "I refused the request of the Israeli army to go down to meet the commander of its forces."
[7:56 am, 15/11/2023] Greg Leb: 04:20| An eyewitness from Shifa Hospital says: "There are dozens of soldiers in the emergency department at Shifa Hospital."
04:30 | Contact with the medical teams inside the Shifa medical complex was cut off.
04:50 | The spokesman for the Ministry of Health dared: "We have nothing to fear - we are not hiding anything at Shifa Hospital."
05:15 | A spokesman for the Ministry of Health told the Al Jazeera network: "Israeli forces are searching the basement of Shifa Hospital."