According to Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units are still storming the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, blowing out the inner walls and doors.
The operation is still ongoing, according to the report, in the western wing of the building.
Iran’s Fars news agency wrote on Telegram that the hospital was disconnected from Internet services and power supplies shortly before the assault. Journalists present near the building “were detained by Israeli servicemen.”
Early on Wednesday morning, the raid got underway. The IDF thinks that the hospital building serves as the headquarters for the extreme Palestinian movement HAMAS. Additionally, is claimed that the hospital serves as the entry point to a system of tunnels and underground bunkers that conceal 200 radicals. It is thought that these tunnels may hold an undetermined number of Israeli hostages.
The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, accompanied by killings of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and taking more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas regards the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and has started delivering strikes on that area and parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.
