While the enemy army has thought that its troops’ raid into al-Shefa’a Compound would be a victory, they found no evidence of resistance presence inside the facility, general director of Gaza Hospitals said on Wednesday in media remarks.
The enemy army broke into al-Shefa’a Hospital’s emergency and surgery sections, inspected the basement, and opened fire at everyone passing through a corridor that it declared to be safe, Ma’an quoted Mohamed Zaquot as saying.
Earlier on Wednesday, Zionist tanks stormed into the al-Shefa’a Medical Compound west Gaza City, after six days of siege, amid intense gunfire and deployment of snipers in the nearby.
According to a report, Israeli troops entered al-Shifa hospital early on Wednesday, conducting what it called a “precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area” of the medical complex.
Medical staffs denied the claim by a senior Israeli military official who said on Wednesday that “weapons and other terror infrastructure” had been found during the ongoing operation “in one specific area” of the hospital.
The Israeli forces falsely claimed that they have been permitted by the medics to carry out the operation inside the Shifa’a hospital.
The official told reporters that four militants had died in a clash outside, but that there had been no fighting inside the hospital complex, and no friction with medical staff or patients, who he said were in a different section of the site.
“IDF soldiers have already found weapons and other terror infrastructure. In the last hour, we saw concrete evidence that Hamas terrorists used the Shifa hospital as a terror headquarter,” the official said, declining to be named. He did not specify what had been found, but said the evidence would be presented later.
Hamas denied the claim, which it said in a statement was “nothing but a continuation of the lies and cheap propaganda, through which [Israel] is trying to give justification for its crime aimed at destroying the health sector in Gaza.”
Fighting has raged around the hospital compound for many days, trapping around 1,200 patients and staff. Al-Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital, has become a strategic objective for Israel.
Israel’s military has said that it is again firing across the UN-drawn blue line that marks the boundary between Israel and Lebanon after “a number of launches toward Israeli territory”.
It claims to have struck “a Hezbollah observation post in Lebanon”.
Earlier, Israeli minister Benny Gantz threatened anti-Israeli forces in Lebanon, saying “what we are doing effectively in the south, can work even better in the north”.
