Patients, staff and displaced people leave Gaza’s largest hospital

Dozens of people were killed in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp on Saturday when what witnesses described as an Israeli air strike hit a crowded UN shelter in the main combat zone of northern Gaza.

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Patients, staff and displaced people have departed Gaza’s largest hospital, health officials said, leaving behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.

The exodus in Gaza City came the same day internet and phone service was restored to the Gaza Strip, ending a telecommunications blackout that forced the United Nations to shut down critical humanitarian aid deliveries because it was unable to co-ordinate its convoys.