Mass graves and body bags: Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after Israel withdrew its forces

- After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital -once the biggest and best equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip- on 1 April, following their second raid there, the claim that there had been no civilian casualties was immediately questioned.

- Investigations revealed decaying bodies sticking out of the sand piled up by combat bulldozers in the courtyards of al-Shifa where four mass graves have been uncovered at the site, with one civil worker saying that they "found corpses of women, children and individuals without heads as well as torn body parts".

- At least some of the corpses found recently at al-Shifa were those of patients who died during Israel’s latest military action, a paramedic involved in the search said some had IV catheters still attached.

- The World Health Organization's Dr Rik Peeperkorn says this group endured “horrific conditions”. After being repeatedly moved around the complex, he says, they “actually ended up in the human resources building which was completely unfit for treatment". Ultimately, he says, 20 patients died.

- International forensic specialists have been unable to reach Gaza to investigate what happened at al-Shifa. That has left much of the focus locally on registering and identifying the dead where possible, and giving them proper burials.