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From Wednesday, November 15th, Israel carries out a large operation within the Al-Shifa Hospitalthe biggest of Link. At the time of the incursion, there were thousands of people there, including injured patients, medical personnel and people displaced by the war who sought refuge in the almost 5-hectare complex.
Before entering the hospital, Israel accused Hamas of having an underground command center in Al Shifa. He also stated that there are underground tunnels at the site for the movement of terrorists and for storing weapons.
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The United States publicly supported the claims of Israel of what Hamas has infrastructure under the Al-Shifa Hospitalsomething that Palestinian Islamists have denied.
CNN said senior US officials have refused on several occasions to explain how they can support Israel’s claims, given that U.S There are no troops on the ground Link.
Hamas He also said that the fighting in Al-Shifa and its surroundings were proof of the unjustified contempt of Israel for the lives of civilians in Link.
In October, in a conference call with the media, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari I affirm this Hamas directed rocket attacks and commanded operations from bunkers located beneath the hospital building. He added that these spaces were linked to the network of tunnels that the Islamists dug under the city of Link.
Israel also published an illustrated video “based on intelligence information” about what, according to its sources, was the supposed headquarters of the Hamas low Al-Shifa. According to CNN, the video shows a 3D diagram of the hospital, which moves to show an animated network of supposed tunnels and operating rooms.
This is what is known so far about those found in the Al-Shifa Hospital:
At the end of the first day of operation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) They claimed in a statement to have found “technological assets, together with military and combat equipment”in a hospital environment intended for carrying out MRIas well as “an operational command center and technological assets” in other parts of the same complex.
The IDF also said that soldiers confronted several members of the Hamas and they shot them down when the attack began.
“In another department of the hospital, soldiers found an operational command center” and more “technological assets” that he also linked Hamas“which indicates that he uses the medical center for terrorist purposes,” Israel accused.
These materials “have been transferred for full review while Israeli forces continue to operate in the hospital complex, extracting intelligence information” and, in turn, seek to “prevent harm to medical personnel and civilians taking refuge there,” according to the IDF. .
On November 19th, Israel He claimed to have found a “fortified tunnel“under the Al-Shifa Hospital.
“Based on intelligence from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet (internal security agency), soldiers exposed a terrorist tunnel from 55 meters long and 10 meters deep below the complex Al-Shifa Hospital“, indicated a military statement that was analyzed by the EFE agency.
The Israeli army published videos showing a deep staircase leading to the entrance of the tunnel shaft, which “consists of defense means such as “an explosion-proof door and a shot hole,” the military noted.
“The terrorist organization Hamas uses this type of door to prevent Israeli forces from entering command centers and underground assets belonging to Hamas,” the army said. Israel.
Israel He said the tunnel was discovered under a warehouse, “next to a vehicle that contained numerous weapons, including anti-tank launchers, explosives and Kalashnikov rifles.”
“The results clearly demonstrate that Hamas uses numerous buildings in the hospital complex as cover for terrorist infrastructure and activities. “This is further proof of the cynical way in which Hamas uses the residents of the Gaza Strip as human shields for its murderous terrorist activities,” said a military spokesman. Israel.
Sunday, Israel published images that, according to him, come from Al Shifa hospital security cameraswhich shows how several hostages were taken to the compound after being kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th in Israeli territory.
“These discoveries prove that the terrorist organization Hamas used the hospital complex in For the Shifa as terrorist infrastructure on the day of the massacre,” the Israeli army and intelligence services said in a statement.
The AFP agency described that in one of the videos several individuals, four of them armed, are seen carrying a man on a stretcher.
In another video, someone is seen trying to resist while being forcibly dragged into a building that looks like a hospital.
“Here you can see Hamas “taking a hostage inside (…) they are taking him to the hospital,” said the military spokesman. Daniel Hagari to the press, explaining that the male hostages were from Nepal and Thailand.
“We haven’t located these two hostages yet,” he added, “we don’t know where they are.”
The images you showed Israel They date back to October 7, 2023, the day Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel by surprise, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping another 240 along with other armed groups, according to Israeli authorities.
Hamas responded in a statement. “We have long said that the resistance took several of the occupier’s prisoners to hospitals to receive care and undergo surgery, especially as some were injured in Israeli aerial bombardment.”
“We show images of all this and the Army spokesman acts as if he has discovered something incredible,” he added.
Until this Tuesday, at Al-Shifa Hospital There were around 200 patients and 50 healthcare professionals left, among the thousands of people who were there last week.
Source: Elcomercio
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