Israel increases the number of suspected militants detained in Shifa hospital in Gaza to almost 600

Israel reported this Wednesday that it detained around 600 suspected Palestinian militia fighters inside the Al-Shifa Hospital in the city of Linkwhere he undertook a military operation three days ago with the argument that “terrorists”.

Army Spokesperson Daniel Hagariassured that so far they have identified 250 of the detainees as members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihadwhile investigating the links with these groups of the other 350 prisoners.

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“We are talking about many Islamic Jihad agents, including battalion commanders, and Hamas agents and politicians.”, explained Hagari in a video recorded at the hospital entrance.

The Army indicated that in the last few hours its forces, together with the ShinBet They arrested more than 300 suspects in the area and located weapons throughout the hospital, including Kalashnikov rifles, machine guns, chargers, mortars, grenades, RPG games It is Combat Teamdetailed a military statement.

In searches of the hospital, the Army claims to have also seized money worth 11 million shekels (2.75 million euros) in dollar bills and Jordanian dinars.

Two days after the Israeli army attacked the city’s largest hospital center on Monday morning for the fourth time. Gaza stripIsraeli soldiers continue to occupy the medical complex, which they claim Hamas uses to “terrorist purposes”.

“As part of the effort to capture terrorists hiding and operating inside hospital buildings and using civilians as human shields“, said the Army.

During this Wednesday morning, Israel He also claimed to have killed approximately 90 suspected militiamen and to have transferred “160 suspects in Israeli territory for further interrogation”.

Furthermore, Israel insisted that all of its military operations within Shifa are preventing damage to “civilians, patients and medical equipment” and assured that last night he provided 1,800 liters of water and 3.8 tons of food in humanitarian aid to civilians taking refuge inside the hospital.

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However, the official Palestinian agency Wafa indicated that some of the patients had to leave the compound and go to the Baptist Hospitaldespite his difficult health condition.

Shifa hospital partially reopened on March 2 to treat those injured in Gaza Citydespite the difficulties and scarcity of available medical supplies, water and food, as the director general of the World Health Organization pointed out, Tedros Adhanom.

In more than five months of war, the deaths in the Gaza Strip are close to 32 thousand, 72% of which are women and children.

Source: Elcomercio

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