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The Israeli military on Monday urged Palestinians sheltering in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the embattled coastal area, and its environs to leave the conflict zone as Israeli troops move in once again. “You should leave the area to the west immediately to ensure your safety and then … to the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi,” a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) wrote in Arabic on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning. He was referring to a town on the coast of the Gaza Strip in the far south. The call was directed at everyone in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza Ci…