Israeli forces arrested the director of al-Shifa hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, while he was evacuating from the northern half of Gaza to the south. Israeli media reported that Abu Salmiya was taken in for questioning by the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency that is notorious for abuses against Palestinian detainees. Khalid Abu Samra, an official at al-Shifa, said that “several other senior doctors” were arrested. On 22 November, three paramedics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the companion of a patient were arrested by Israeli troops during an evacuation of people from al-Shifa hospital.