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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stormed early on November 15 al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where thousands of civilians, including medical staff and patients, have been trapped for the last few weeks.
In an initial statement, the IDF said that it had launched an “operation “in a certain part” of the hospital, which allegedly hosts the main military command center of the Hamas Movement.
“The operation is based on intelligence information and operational need,” said the statement. “The operation is not meant to harm patients, medical staff or citizens in the hospital.”
Ahead of the statement, Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry told the Qatari state broadcaster Al Jazeera that it was informed by the IDF they will imminently storm al-Shifa Hospital.
Later, a spokesman for the IDF told CNN that the hospital was not being occupied, asserting Israeli troops are just conducting a “precise and targeted operation against a specific location… in order to defeat Hamas and perhaps rescue hostages.”
“Our goal is to bring [the hostages] home. Our goal is to seek out Hamas wherever they are hiding,” Lieutenant Colonel (reserve) Peter Lerner said, describing the hospital as “perhaps even the beating heart” of the group’s operations.
In its first response, Hamas accuses United States President Joe Biden of being “wholly responsible” for an Israeli army operation at Gaza’s largest hospital.
“We hold the occupation (Israel) and President Biden wholly responsible for the assault on the al-Shifa medical complex,” Hamas said in a statement.
Youssef Abul Reesh, an official from Gaza health ministry who is inside the hospital, said that he saw Israeli tanks inside the complex and “dozens of soldiers and commandos inside the emergency and reception buildings.”
Videos from the hospitals showed chaos as medical staff and refugees were rushing to move patients, including premature babies, as Israeli troops moved in.
Several hours into the operation, the IDF claimed that its troops found weapons and Hamas assets inside the hospital without presenting any evidence. It also admitted that there were no indications of Israeli hostages currently being held there.
Despite facing much criticism, an unnamed Israeli security official said that the operation at al-Shifa Hospital will be widened if necessary.
“We are starting small, and the operation will expand as necessary,” the official told Army Radio. “The entry of troops into al-Shifa is more of a challenge for media [optics] than operations.”
“The decision was that we enter al-Shifa only if we know exactly what is there and where it is, as we did at Rantisi Hospital, which was only [raided] when we knew exactly what was in its basement,” the official added.
The IDF reached the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital last week. However, they sustained some losses. On November 14 alone, two soldiers were killed. Their death brought the number of Israeli troops killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza to 48.
The Israeli success around the hospital is partly the result of Hamas and other armed factions refraining from clashing with the IDF in the civilian-packed area. The Palestinian will likely show more resistance as Israeli troops advance towards other areas in Gaza. Although the fall of the city is very likely.
the joo cries out in pain as he strikes. we was told joos were smart, i dont see any signs of intelligent life with tzahal
the evil and sickness that is the supremacist chosenite demon, facilitated as the beast is by its enslaved anglo tax cattle, must be purged from this world or humanity will never live in peace. anyone that supports these jackals running amok in occupied palestine is equally guilty and must be held accountable for these zionazi war crimes and crimes against humanity. iran must strike the viper or inevitably suffer the same fate in the coming weeks, months or years. stop the slaughter.
hamas has been an obstacle of peace and has brought poverty, curse and corruption across entire gaza. the palestinians suffer because of hamas.
not hamas the obstacle to peace, the real problem is joosrahell, only one way : eradicating the evil decease joory
the real problem lies with the state sponsors of terrorism. eradicating hamas will cleanse restore order across the entire gaza. goat fuckers and hamas supporters are not allowed.
nah this all started back in 1948.
the palestine people suffer because of the us hegman imperialist tendency. hamas has had enough as have the palestinian people had enough…
where are the billions worth of aid flowing into gaza? to make the place into the next singapore? no. for hamas to make tunnels, rockets, bombs, artilliery pieces and terror infrastructure. not to feed and provide prosperity to palestine. that is hamas. thank you hamas for your corruption. because of you, the palestenians suffer.
everything that was ever built was bombed every time by the zios, countless times in the last few decades alone. you know this exactly, you lying and devious ziokhazar lying snake
shias fighters are coming, the end of joosrahell is coming. the satan chosen people have a very bad smell when is dead, moudjahidin smell paradise when he is dead 😄 the evil jewry are the satan bitch.
the evil joo pampers army isn’t human, it’s demon with human appearance, must be eliminated . all ziopigs are evil and the best way is to destroy them.
alla snackbar. says the bloodthirsty goat fuckers. according to their holy quoran, every jew must be killed in the name of their bloodthirsty allah (the satan of this world). every goat fucker hates israel. plot twist – also, every goat fucker will bow down to the god of israel when they realized they were protected against all odds.
insane much ?
cool it nazi you are not convincing anyone.
juden schwein
ziopigs are the most dangerous creatures for humanity, always crying and lying and killing innocent people.
alla snackbar. says the bloodthirsty goat fuckers. according to their holy quoran, every jew must be killed in the name of their bloodthirsty allah (the satan of this world). every goat fucker hates israel. plot twist – also, every goatfucker will bow down to the god of israel when they realized they were protected against all odds.
seems hasbara cant get better ones than ziokhasar monkeys pushing the copy-paste button? hahahahaaaaaa
israel has proven beyond shadow of a doubt why jews are hated and despised wherever they go.
alla snackbar. says the bloodthirsty goat fuckers. according to their holy quoran, every jew must be killed in the name of their bloodthirsty allah (the satan of this world). every goat fucker hates israel. plot twist – also, every fucking goat fucker will bow down to the god of israel when they realized they were protected against all odds.
lol you hasbara hurenkind. not only the 2 billion muslims worldwide, the most of the 8 billion worlds population hates you, as we can see with serious reasons. but you and youalikes still show an endless arrogance, cynicism and ignorance, led you once to the holocaust, but when nothing learned from history, than history may repeat.
expelled from 109 countries…
do not play their game by conflating judaism with zionism, zionism is the problem.
messianic zionism.
thickheaded people need to get that fact straight!
wow 2 death .. and 48 in total – really “heavy casualties”
i am sure their families think so.
48 peanuts, worth it and job well done.
jews consider their lives to be equal to 1000 goyim.
where is hamas igor konashenkov,to come up with super high idf casulty fantasies?
no him. i’m here instead. 457 dead 🐖 pigs. as per idf. as per other sources well over 1250.
the city will fall, if it does just make sure it’s on a mountain of zionist thugs bodies.
the spokespeople for israeli zionist – fascist has always been snobby and snobbish. but then so too is the idf, snobby and snobbish.
urgent! spread the message everhwhere you can.
military hack shows that zionist israelis and even us navy planning on striking hmeimmim airbase in jablah if war expands with hezvollah/iran. russia should prepare accordingly and deploy more s-400 batteries along with more pantsir systems and electronic jammer stations. hmeimim already heavily defended, but needs much more defense,
أفاد أحد القراصنة العسكريين أن الصهاينة الإسرائيليين يخططون لضرب قاعدة حميميم الجوية في جبلة إذا اتسعت الحرب مع إيران. ويجب على روسيا الاستعداد وفقًا لذلك ونشر المزيد من بطاريات إس-400/300، بالإضافة إلى المزيد من أنظمة بانتسير وأجهزة التشويش. استعد الآن.!
военный хакер сообщил, что израильские сионисты планируют нанести удар по авиабазе хмеймим в джабле, если война с ираном расширится. россия должна подготовиться соответствующим образом и развернуть больше батарей с-400/300 !!!!
they are showing the world who they really are.
whom are they really?
i.moral d.ump f.ucker
the most cowards army in the world
tbh palestine was more peaceful under israeli control in the 1980s. palestinians could live and work in israel without issue and many people would move between the regions. ever since the plo shit’s gotten worse.