Israeli forces have invaded part of the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. Based on intelligence information, soldiers “conducted a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specific area of Shifa Hospital,” the army said in Telegram early Wednesday morning. “We call on all Hamas terrorists present in the hospital to surrender.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were more than 2,000 people in the Shifa clinic as of Monday, including likely more than 600 patients and about 1,500 displaced people. The information is based on estimates from the local Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas. Eyewitnesses confirmed the figures.
Clashes have been going on for days between Israeli ground forces and Palestinian extremists near hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip. Staff at Shifa Hospital, the largest clinic in the Gaza Strip, reported continued shelling in the area. Israel suspects the hospital complex is a Hamas command center. This denies that.
According to the military, medical teams and Arabic speakers were among those involved in the military operation at Shifa Hospital. They had undergone special training and were tasked with ensuring no harm was caused to civilians used as human shields by Hamas, the armed forces said in a statement.
According to media reports, the armed forces had warned authorities in the Gaza Strip about the operation. The army had contacted a Palestinian health official and informed them of the impending attack, a spokesman for the Islamist Hamas-controlled Health Ministry told Al-Jazeera television on Wednesday.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari had previously announced that the armed forces would also take action against alleged Hamas infrastructure in hospitals in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas’ continued military use of Shifa Hospital will cause it to lose its special protection under international law,” Hagari said. “We are forced to take careful and precise action against Hamas’ military infrastructure in the hospitals.”
The US also believes that Hamas is using hospitals in the Gaza Strip for military purposes. National Security Council Communications Director John Kirby said: “Hamas and members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are using some hospitals in the Gaza Strip – including the Shifa Clinic – and tunnels beneath them to conceal and advance their military operations and to to hold hostages. on”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again called for his country’s support in the fight against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In a message on » He demanded: “The forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating the barbarism of Hamas.” Earlier, Trudeau reportedly “urgently” called on the Israeli government to “exercise maximum restraint” in its fight in the Gaza Strip and to take a humanitarian pause. He said: “The world is witnessing this murder of women, children and babies. That has to stop.”
Humanitarian support for more than two million people in the Gaza Strip could soon collapse due to a lack of fuel, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). A fuel depot in the Gaza Strip that the aid agency last used is now empty, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said. “It’s easy. Without fuel the humanitarian operation in Gaza will end. Many more people will suffer and probably die.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” about the situation in hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Guterres said these registered dramatic losses of life. “In the name of humanity, the Secretary-General calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” it said in a statement. Israel criticized Guterres for his role in the Gaza war. “Guterres does not deserve to be UN chief,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said. He did not take a decisive enough stand against Hamas terror. “Guterres, like all free nations, should say clearly and loudly: ‘Free Gaza from Hamas,’” Cohen continued.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu travels to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Before his departure, he wrote on news platform It is the first visit by a French Defense Minister to Israel since 2000. (sda/dpa)
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