PALESTINIANS fleeing the ongoing Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip’s main hospital today described days of heaving fighting accompanied by mass arrests and forced marches past dead bodies.

The Israeli military says it has killed over 170 Palestinian resistance fighters and detained some 480 suspects during its raid on al-Shifa hospital, which began last Monday.

And at least another 19 Palestinians were killed and 23 injured at the weekend while waiting for humanitarian assistance in an Israeli attack targeting civilians south-east of Gaza City, the Strip’s Ministry of Health said.