The Israeli army claims to control Hamas institutions in the Gaza Strip, including parliament

The IDF gains ground in the besieged enclave and marks its territory. On Tuesday, the Israeli army announced it had seized government buildings of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza City, including parliament, government and police buildings.

Since the deadly Hamas attack on October 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians according to Israeli authorities, the Israeli army has been bombing the Gaza Strip nonstop and its tanks are now tightening their grip on Gaza City. especially around hospitals, which Israel believes are being used as logistics and military bases by Hamas.

Israeli flag on the podium of parliament

The Israeli army claims to have taken control of “the Hamas parliament, the government headquarters, the Hamas police headquarters and the Faculty of Engineering, which was used for the production and development of weapons.” Social media images show Israeli soldiers unfurling the blue and white Israeli flag on the podium of the head of parliament, as well as soldiers posing in front of a wall that bears a badge that reads “Military Police Headquarters.”

The Palestinian parliament, which is supposed to meet in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank where the Palestinian Authority is based, lay dormant for years and was officially dissolved in 2018. actually depend on parallel authorities.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombing from the air, sea and now tanks on the ground has killed more than 11,000 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.