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The Israeli army said today (Monday) that its soldiers arrested about 100 people suspected of belonging to the “Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement” (Hamas) during an attack on the “Kamal Adwan Hospital” in northern Gaza.

According to Reuters, health officials in Gaza and Hamas denied there were any armed men at the hospital, which Israeli forces attacked on Friday and left on Saturday. The army said in a statement: “The soldiers arrested about 100 insurgents in the hospital, including dozens who tried to escape from the hospital when the forces entered. “We found combat equipment, money to finance terrorist activities, and documents belonging to Hamas.”

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli forces arrested dozens of male medical workers and damaged the hospital, which is already struggling to function amid violent Israeli attacks in the area. .

A military official told reporters in an online message: “Some of the identified terrorists were completely disguised as medical personnel, so we had no choice but to search the medical personnel too.” A video released by the Gaza Health Ministry on Saturday showed damage to several buildings after Israeli forces withdrew. Reuters has not been able to verify the authenticity of the clip.

The army official said that the forces caused a lot of damage to the hospital when they entered it, and that the soldiers also had to destroy “dual-use” equipment, such as oxygen tubes that could cause injuries if they exploded. .

Medical teams refused to evacuate the hospital or leave patients unattended. Hundreds of displaced Palestinians were also in the hospital.

Maysoon Alyan, a nurse at the hospital, said: “They brought out the displaced people here, of course among men and women. In fact, they immediately killed the men and immediately killed the women. Among them was that the men would line up one by one and the women would line up one after the other Without a doubt, it was a big, big, big way of humiliating our youth, until did they bring them uncovered and without clothes. .”

The army official said that the detainees suspected of belonging to Hamas were stripped of their clothes to ensure that they did not have weapons. He said: “After we checked them, we gave them clothes.”

Medics said at least two children died inside the intensive care unit after Israeli fire hit the hospital’s generators and oxygen station on Friday.

The Israeli military said civilians in the hospital remained safe despite heavy fighting near the building. He said fuel, medical equipment and blood units were brought to the hospital, as well as electricity and oxygen supplies.