The Israel Defense Forces said that IDF forces, based on intelligence and operational necessity, are conducting a targeted operation against Hamas in a specific area at Shifa Hospital, the main hospital in the Gaza Strip.
IN message The IDF Telegram says:
“The IDF is conducting a ground operation in Gaza to defeat Hamas and rescue our hostages. Israel is fighting a war with Hamas, not with the civilian population in Gaza.”
How reports The Air Force and the Israeli army announced on Wednesday night that they had launched a “targeted” operation at the Al-Shifa hospital, under which, as the Israelis prove, there is a Hamas command post. The IDF forces include medical teams and Arabic-speaking personnel trained to avoid harming civilians used as human shields by Hamas, the military said.
The report notes that the IDF has repeatedly publicly warned that the military use of Shifa Hospital jeopardizes its protected status under international law and has “provided sufficient time to stop this unlawful abuse of the hospital.” Yesterday, the IDF once again notified the relevant authorities in Gaza that all military activities in the hospital must cease within 12 hours, “unfortunately this did not happen.”
The IDF noted that it facilitated the large-scale evacuation of the hospital and maintained regular dialogue with hospital management: “We call on all Hamas terrorists who are in the hospital to surrender.”
Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, is “almost like a cemetery,” the World Health Organization has said, with bodies of the dead piling up inside and outside the hospital. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that, according to US information, a Hamas command center is located under the Al-Shifa hospital.
Israeli troops the day before approached the gates of Al-Shifa, where, according to doctors, patients, including newborn children, are dying due to lack of fuel.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, Dr. Ashraf al-Qudra, said on Wednesday night, after the Israeli army entered the Al-Shifa hospital complex, that there are only unarmed civilians in the hospital: patients, doctors and local residents , hiding from bombings and battles. “We have nothing to fear or hide,” Al Jazeera quoted Dr. al-Qudra as saying.
The director general of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Zakout, spoke to Al Jazeera and confirmed that Israeli soldiers were searching al-Shifa’s basements. According to him, as of early morning, the Israelis entered two hospital buildings located immediately at the main entrance to the complex. “Not a single shot was fired from the hospital during the assault by the occupying forces,” Al Jazeera quoted Dr. Zakuta as saying.
Yesterday the IDF, like reported Our publication published video evidence of Hamas militants storing weapons in a children’s hospital and possibly holding hostages there. The Times of Israel published the video and quoted IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari: “Today we will reveal it to the world.” The Israeli military has presented evidence that the basement of a Gaza City hospital was used by Hamas to hide weapons and possibly hold hostages that were kidnapped on October 7.
Khagari showed video evidence of weapons storage underneath Gaza’s Rantisi Children’s Hospital and rooms allegedly used to hold hostages. One of them contains a calendar of the changing of the guard, starting on October 7, when Hamas sent thousands of terrorists into Israel.
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