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Israel’s army said Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza as bases of operation in a “systematic” attempt to conceal its military activities, expanding on claims Hamas has denied.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari provided new accusations of militant infrastructure within and around two major clinics after asserting last week that Hamas headquarters are beneath the territory’s main health facility.
“Hamas’s use of hospitals to disguise their war machine is systematic,” Hagari said in a televised media briefing on Sunday, revealing material that had been declassified for the purpose.
The Qatari-built Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa al Thani Hospital sits above a tunnel used by Hamas, Hagari said. The group’s fighters have shot at Israeli troops from inside the hospital, he added.
Another clinic, the Indonesian Hospital, is being used by Hamas to hide an underground command and control center, Hagari said. A launch pad for Hamas rockets is situated 75 meters (245 feet) from the hospital, he said.
The Israeli army on October 27 said Hamas — which the US and European Union have designated a terror group – has its military headquarters in a labyrinth of tunnels and underground compounds beneath the al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest medical complex.
Hamas has rejected Israel’s assertion that it uses hospitals to shield an underground military network as having “no basis in truth.” In response to the Oct. 27 claims, Ezzat el-Reshiq, a Hamas official, said Israel was attempting to “pave the way for targeting a hospital that contains thousands of wounded and shelters more than 40,000 displaced people.”
Top Israeli officials have indicated that as their forces seek to dismantle Hamas’ infrastructure, a major challenge — and target — are the hospitals that they say serve as command and control centers underground, linked to hundreds of miles of tunnels.
A significant obstacle is that the hospitals not only have ill and wounded but are housing thousands of people seeking shelter from the war.
A Hamas terrorist cell was identified using an ambulance. In response, an IDF aircraft struck and neutralized the Hamas terrorists, who were operating within the ambulance.
Israel’s military on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an ambulance near al-Shifa hospital, which it said was being used to ferry Hamas fighters — a claim the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza called “baseless.”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on X, formerly Twitter, that he was “horrified” by the attack, which the medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres called “a new low.”
This is a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence. The repeated strikes on hospitals, ambulances, densely populated areas and refugee camps are disgraceful. How many people have to die before world leaders wake up and call for a ceasefire?
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari provided new accusations of militant infrastructure within and around two major clinics after asserting last week that Hamas headquarters are beneath the territory’s main health facility.
“Hamas’s use of hospitals to disguise their war machine is systematic,” Hagari said in a televised media briefing on Sunday, revealing material that had been declassified for the purpose.
The Qatari-built Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa al Thani Hospital sits above a tunnel used by Hamas, Hagari said. The group’s fighters have shot at Israeli troops from inside the hospital, he added.
Another clinic, the Indonesian Hospital, is being used by Hamas to hide an underground command and control center, Hagari said. A launch pad for Hamas rockets is situated 75 meters (245 feet) from the hospital, he said.
The Israeli army on October 27 said Hamas — which the US and European Union have designated a terror group – has its military headquarters in a labyrinth of tunnels and underground compounds beneath the al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest medical complex.
Hamas has rejected Israel’s assertion that it uses hospitals to shield an underground military network as having “no basis in truth.” In response to the Oct. 27 claims, Ezzat el-Reshiq, a Hamas official, said Israel was attempting to “pave the way for targeting a hospital that contains thousands of wounded and shelters more than 40,000 displaced people.”
Top Israeli officials have indicated that as their forces seek to dismantle Hamas’ infrastructure, a major challenge — and target — are the hospitals that they say serve as command and control centers underground, linked to hundreds of miles of tunnels.
A significant obstacle is that the hospitals not only have ill and wounded but are housing thousands of people seeking shelter from the war.
A Hamas terrorist cell was identified using an ambulance. In response, an IDF aircraft struck and neutralized the Hamas terrorists, who were operating within the ambulance.
Israel’s military on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an ambulance near al-Shifa hospital, which it said was being used to ferry Hamas fighters — a claim the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza called “baseless.”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on X, formerly Twitter, that he was “horrified” by the attack, which the medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres called “a new low.”
This is a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence. The repeated strikes on hospitals, ambulances, densely populated areas and refugee camps are disgraceful. How many people have to die before world leaders wake up and call for a ceasefire?
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