[3] The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that Israeli tanks approached the hospital, and began firing upon it.

[4][5] They reported that about 14,000 displaced people were sheltering inside of it at the time of the fighting.

[4][5] Evangelical Christian website All Israel News reported that a Hamas battalion operating from the hospital ambushed IDF troops; saying that 21 militants were killed whereas the Israelis suffered no casualties.

[6] In the early morning of 12 November, an Israeli attack hit near the hospital and damaged it.

[7] Later that day, the Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that the hospital had run out of fuel and ceased treating patients.