Israel attempts to justify its raid of the Al-Shifah Hospital, conditions inside the complex are growing more dire by the day. Cianaz Nade-Bashir has an update on the humanitarian crisis unfolding all across Gaza.

It's a scene that should be filled with innocence, but these drawings, sketches of houses, paint a picture of all these children who've lost. Home for the displaced, now makeshift shelters in central Gaza. Lives in limbo with nowhere to go. In the south, as more children are buried, another warning. Leavelets dropped by the Israeli military on Thursday telling civilians in Southern Gaza to move and find shelter. A foreboding signal that Israel's ground incursion could soon extend its punishing reach..

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The UN rights experts on Thursday warned that grave violations committed by Israel point in their words, to a genocide in the making. As darkness encompasses doctors in the south, already grappling with the impact of Israel's intensifying bombing campaign, there are growing fears over what could come next. Desperate scenes from the north of Gaza, almost entirely destroyed by Israel's unrelent and airstrikes, show just how dire the situation can quickly become. We have lost contact with our colleagues. Patients, and everyone inside the Al-Shifah medical complex. Israeli forces say they are still active in and around the Al-Shifah Hospital, Gaza's largest, claiming to have found an operational tunnel shaft at the hospital complex. With no access to the complex, CNN is unable to verify either side's claims. Israel says its military operation at Al-Shifah will take time, raising fears over the safety and security of more than a thousand patients and medical staff now trapped inside.

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Allegations of people at Al-Shifr being interrogated and even stripped are beginning to emerge. While doctors are detailing the harrowing decisions they are being forced to make, including amputating limbs to stop the spread of infection. But with the communications blackout cutting Northern Gaza off from much of the outside world, CNN has no ability to verify these accounts and has reached out to the IDF for comment. No videos have emerged from staff at Al-Shifah Hospital since the raid began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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Are some of the last pictures to have been shared with the world, premature babies in intensive care. There is no way to tell if all are still alive. Their cries. Some of the last sounds are heard before the voices of those inside and Shifah were silenced.

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Wolf, there is still mounting concern for the safety and security of those patients and medical staff as well as other civilians inside the Al-Shifah complex. As you heard there, it is extremely difficult to even to begin to think about evacuating some of these patients who require specialist medical evacuations. And as we know, of course, already there are some 1.5 million Palestinians who have been displaced within the Gaza Strip. And of course, while that has been an intense focus on the Al-Shifah complex, what we are seeing across the Gaza Strip now is continued aerial bombardment, continued concern over the mounting death toll that we are seeing.

Wolf? Natalie, a reporting live from Jerusalem. Thank you, Nadda, very much. Let's get to know more on all of these developments. Joining us now, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant Colonel, Amnon Shefler. Lieutenant Colonel, thank you so much for joining us. First of all, what more can you tell us about this, quote, operational tunnel shaft that Israeli forces say they found inside Al-Shifah Complex? Is that the extent of what the IDF has found at Al-Shifah so far when it comes to tunnels? Or is there more?

This is one of the peers that we found in the area that we're continuously also looking for other. This shows that clearly there is a tunnel infrastructure underneath the Al-Shifah Hospital. We found also today a lot of explosives and other ammunition right in that courtyard of the Al-Shifah Hospital, also together with what we found yesterday in the MRI room, we also found the car that you just showed that is similar to the cars that were used on the October seventh massacre, and it was booby trapped, once again showing how Hamas did not care and was looking forward to explode a car inside the Shifah Hospital that would surely have killed also patients and staff of that hospital.

Lieutenant Colonel, can you say unequivocally that what's been found at the hospital shows this was a major Hamas command center. What exactly do you define as a command center?

Yes, we can say that now clearly, and now we're also showing it on top of the evidence that we knew from the intel and that our US counterparts have also verified. What we're seeing here is a place where Hamas can gather. We saw the communication tools that they had, we saw the intel tools that they need in order to facilitate any terrorist activity and carry it out from that infrastructure that they used. Again, another civilian infrastructure. Similarly, they use schools, they use mosques, and also they use this hospital, the hospital, the Gantiti Hospital, to carry out and plan and to secure terrorist activity.

The director of El Shif, of the hospital there, says patients there are going untreated, including a lot of children. Doesn't Israel have an obligation to deliver critical supplies to at least the patients there?

We have an obligation, a moral obligation, and we wish to. That is why today we brought 4,000 liters of water to the hospital. That is why we brought today 1,500 prepared meals to the hospital. That is why we are continuously talking to the administration of the hospital and the doctors, and to see what is needed. Based on what they said, we brought in the incubators, we brought in baby food, we have designated an area of the hospital, the Eastern side of it, that civilians and patients that can leave, should leave, through the humanitarian corridors that we are continuously protecting and allowing those civilians to leave. And that is why we're in continuous communication to find the best way that we can alleviate the suffering that Hamas is bringing on the people in Gaza.

Are you planning to deliver fuel to the hospital?

We have offered fuel, 300 liters, that our soldiers brought while taking a risk to the hospital. Sadly, the hospital did not take it in, probably because the Hamas was threatening what would happen to them if they do. As I mentioned, we are in continuous communication, and whatever the hospital says that they need, we will try to facilitate that.

The body of an Israeli hostage, a woman was found near Al-Shifah Hospital. The IDF says she was killed by terrorists. Can you explain the exact circumstances of her death, 65-year-old grandmother?

65-year-old Yehudit Weiss was found right next to the Al-Shifah Hospital and brought back to Israel to be buried next to her husband, that was also murdered on the seventh of October by Hamas. We have two goals in this war that Hamas launched. One is to dismantle Hamas, and the second is to bring back the hostages that now on the Day 41 are still being held by Hamas. And I want to remind everyone, the safest and fastest way for these hostages to come home is for Hamas to release them and the international community to continue pressuring Hamas to do so.

Do you know exactly how this 65-year-old grandmother died?

We know that she, on October seventh, was alive in her bed in Kibbutz-Beirie, and Hamas came in and brutally massacred 10% of that kibbutz and took her as hostage, together with a nine-month-old baby, children, women, and elderly. Now we know that she has sadly passed away.

As you know, Israel has dropped leaflets in the largest city in southern Gaza, warning civilians there to leave. The IDF previously told people to move south for safety. So where are they supposed to go, Lieutenant Colonel?

We're the ones that are actually continuously communicating with the people of Gaza, looking for the safer areas where they can be. Because we knew that Hamas has its headquarters mainly in the Gaza City, that is where operationally we chose to start. But sadly, as we know, Hamas is operating all over the Gaza Strip. More than 10,000 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli civilians, and this includes coming from the southern part of Gaza. Hamas is not operating only in Gaza City, it's operating also in the south. And in order to reach our number one goal, which is to dismantle Hamas, we will go them wherever they are. Yet we are looking for the safest places for the civilians of Gaza. And that is why we've asked them initially to move to the southern part of Gaza, south of the Wadi of Gaza. And now we're telling them specifically where to move within that area. And also, while doing so, we're continuously in communication with any international organization that wants to aid the Palestinians, bring in any international medicine, facilities, food that can be helped, including field hospitals, that we're inviting any country that wants to donate them to bring them to the southern part of Gaza so we can help the Palestinians.

As we said, reaching the goal of dismantling Hamas will not only bring it to be safer for Israelis, it will also bring it to be safer for the Palestinians living in Gaza.

Lieutenant Colonel, I'm Nonah Sheffler. Thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having us.