The Israeli army is carrying out massive strikes in the Gaza Strip in these hours, said the spokesman of the Israeli Defense Forces, Daniel Hagari, quoted by TASS. The Israeli army uses hundreds of fighter jets with artillery and naval support. The attack managed to split the enclave in two.
“At these hours, there is a large-scale attack on terrorist targets on the ground and underground, we are talking about the destruction of terrorists. We are attacking massively, now there is a very serious attack,” he said at an evening briefing. According to Hagari, the strikes will continue in the coming days.
According to him, the Israeli military has completely completed the encirclement of Gaza City, occupying positions on the coast of the coastal city, but the humanitarian corridor for the exit of the local population south of the strip will continue to function.
“Today there is North Gaza and South Gaza. We still allow the humanitarian corridor to operate so that the people of the north can move and evacuate to the south, this movement is one way – from north to south. We will continue to attack the northern part of the Strip and Gaza City,” he said.
About “intense shelling” around several hospitals in the northern part of Gaza, including near Al-Shifa hospital, reports Le Monde”.
According to the head of the press service of the Hamas government, Salameh Maaruf, quoted by Agence France-Presse, bomb attacks were carried out in particular near the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip.
According to the Hamas government press office, the Israeli army carried out intense bombardment on Sunday evening “for more than an hour” around several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, where internet and telephone lines were damaged.
The strikes came shortly after the Israeli military again accused Hamas of using hospitals in the ongoing war against Israel. The Hamas government said it was ready on Sunday evening to host an “international commission of inquiry” to inspect the hospitals and ensure they are not being used for military purposes by the Islamist movement.
According to Al Jazeera, Hamas fighters are ambushing Israeli troops trying to encircle Gaza City as the devastating airstrikes continue.
Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza has intensified, especially in the north, where many civilians remain trapped and unable to escape.
WHO is concerned after Israel strikes near al-Quds hospital. The World Health Organization has expressed concern for the safety of patients, health workers and the thousands of people sheltering at Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City.
Earlier, Israel struck the area of the hospital, injuring 14 people and damaging the building.
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The Israeli armed forces said today that they had uncovered a network of Hamas tunnels, command centers and rocket launchers under and near hospitals in northern Gaza, Reuters reported.
“Hamas systematically uses hospitals as part of its war machine,” Israel’s chief military spokesman, Vice Admiral Daniel Hagari, told reporters.
The Islamist group Hamas denies these accusations and accuses Israel of spreading lies, according to Reuters.
Hagari presented to the media video footage, photos and audio recordings that he said demonstrated Hamas’ strategy of using hospitals as cover and preventing civilians from leaving battle zones. He also said more than 800 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel during the war landed in the enclave, killing many Palestinians.
The Iranian-backed Hamas group manufactures some of its own missiles and also receives missiles from abroad. Reuters notes that it is not possible to confirm Hagari’s words from independent sources. Israel has for weeks drawn attention to Gaza’s main hospital, Al Shifa, accusing Hamas of using it as a shield for its underground operations centers.
Hagari has now made similar accusations about two other hospitals in northern Gaza – the Qatari-funded Sheikh Hamad Hospital and a hospital built by organizations from Indonesia.
Footage from two videos about the Qatari hospital showed entrances to Hamas tunnels and Hamas fighters firing at Israeli soldiers from inside the hospital, Hagari said. Yes, a satellite image shows missile launchers positioned across the street from the Indonesian hospital, he added.
“They launch rockets at Israel 75 meters from a hospital. Why? They know very well that if Israel strikes such a launch site, the hospital will be damaged,” Hagari said.
Israeli ground forces with air and naval support have surrounded Gaza’s largest city and are battling Hamas fighters, Reuters said. The war began on October 7 when Hamas carried out cross-border attacks that killed 1,400 people in Israel and took about 240 hostages in Gaza. Some 9,770 Palestinians were killed, prompting growing international concern about Israel’s tactics.
2023-11-05 19:25:39
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