Israel pushed again on what it referred to as “misinformation” about preventing close to hospitals in Gaza similar to Shifa Hospital, the place Hamas has established its headquarters, saying that it was not concentrating on hospitals and was serving to sufferers and personnel to evacuate.
It has been undisputed reality for greater than a decade that Hamas makes use of the hospital website for its underground headquarters, and in addition as a facility to to torture and kill political dissidents. The IDF additionally introduced proof of Hamas tunnels beneath different hospitals, and Hamas rocket launches close to hospital amenities.
On Thursday, the IDF introduced that it had begun a mixed air and floor assault on the “navy quarter of the Hamas terrorist group within the coronary heart of Gaza Metropolis, close to the Shifa hospital.”
Since then, accusations have been made in worldwide media that Israel is concentrating on Shifa Hospital or inflicting deaths there, together with the deaths of infants. The IDF has pushed again, arguing that Shifa was hit by an errant Palestinian projectile — simply as an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket had hit the car parking zone of the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza Metropolis earlier within the warfare.
Earlier in the present day, the IDF obtained stories of a success on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis. The Hamas-run media workplace within the Gaza Strip instantly claimed that this was a strike carried out by the IDF.
An examination of IDF operational methods signifies {that a} misfired projectile… pic.twitter.com/RzkR2vkKEI
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) November 10, 2023
IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari appeared on Israeli tv Saturday to elucidate, in Hebrew and in English, that there was no menace to Shifa Hospital, and that Israel was facilitating evacuations on the east aspect of the constructing, regardless of preventing to the west.
Individually, the IDF director of the Coordination of Authorities Actions within the Territories (COGAT) delivered a message in Arabic, saying that anybody who needed to depart the hospital was in a position to take action, and that the hospital was not below “siege.”
“There is no such thing as a taking pictures on the hospital and there’s no siege.
The East Facet of the hospital stays open.”Head of the Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA) to Gaza in @cogatonline COL Moshe Tetro explains the state of affairs on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/pIyQ0wU225
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) November 11, 2023
The IDF additionally stated Saturday that it had helped evacuate different hospitals elsewhere within the Gaza Strip:
Following the repeated requires the residents of Gaza Metropolis to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip for his or her security, because of the navy exercise within the space, the IDF enabled the evacuation of the Rantisi and Nasser hospitals.
IDF troops opened and secured an evacuation route yesterday (Friday), alongside which civilians can go on foot and in ambulances. Throughout the IDF exercise to safe the hall, armed terrorists approached the troops, and fired RPGs towards them. IDF troops struck the terrorists.
The terrorist group Hamas operates terrorist networks in civilian buildings whereas cynically exploiting them, together with the Rantisi hospital.
Individually, the IDF introduced that it had launched an airstrike that killed Ahmed Siam, a Hamas terrorist who had held about 1,000 Palestinians hostage at Rantisi Hospital and had prevented them from evacuating the realm.
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