Scores of families had set up camp in the hospital compound's parking lot, hoping that international laws prohibiting attacks on hospitals would make it a safe place to shelter.
It is like living inside a recurring nightmare, said Mahmoud Wadi, a 20-year-old whose extended family had been living on the hospital grounds for months.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had been targeting a Hamas command center near the hospital. The fire that erupted afterward was probably caused by secondary explosions.
Israeli troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, according to a Times investigation. While the extent and scale of such operations are unknown, the practice is illegal under both Israeli and international law.
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