The Palestinian Red Crescent denounced a “violent attack” by Israeli tanks, which “surrounded” the Ahli Arab hospital in the Gaza Strip. Rescue teams “cannot reach the injured.”
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The Palestinian Red Crescent denounced this Thursday a “Violent attack” by Israeli tanks that “surrounded” the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, where the army has been tightening the siege.
“Rescue teams cannot move and therefore cannot reach the injured,” added the Red Crescent, which runs the hospital.
The Hamas Health Ministry also denounced an attack by the Israeli army to several rooms at the Al Shifa hospital, also in Gaza City.
Israel accuses Hamas, an organization considered terrorist by the European Union and the United States, of using hospital units in Gaza to attack its forces and even maintaining command centers underground. The Israeli Army confirmed this Thursday that it had “searched all the floors, building by building.”
On Wednesday, Israeli forces claimed to have found an operational command center, weapons and technological resources in the facilities of the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, in their operations against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
An operational command center, weapons and technological resources were found in the MRI building of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement, adding that its troops continue “the precise and directed operation against the terrorist.” Hamas organization” in this hospital unit.
The IDF describes that when the soldiers entered the hospital complex, “They confronted several terrorists and killed them” and then, during searches in one of the hospital departments, “they located a room with technological goods, in addition to military and combat equipment” used by Hamas.
The war between Israel and Hamas was triggered by the October 7 attack by the Palestinian movement on Israeli territory, the first of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state.
On the Israeli side, around 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, massacred that day, and around 240 people were taken hostage, according to authorities.
In retaliation, Israel has relentlessly bombed the Gaza Strip, which is under total siege. Israeli bombings killed more than 11,500 people, mostly civilians, including 4,710 children, according to the Hamas government.
Source: Observadora
