Israeli troops enter Gaza’s largest hospital and find Hamas weapons
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It was the first of at least four strikes involving multiple munitions on different sections of the sprawling complex between 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. Friday morning. The director of Al-Shifa said in the interview that seven people had been killed and several others had been wounded.
Hours after the final blast, the Israeli military blamed unspecified Palestinian militants, saying a “misfired projectile” aimed at Israel Defense Forces troops deployed nearby had instead hit the hospital.
But at least three of the projectiles that struck it appear to have been Israeli munitions, according to pictures of weapons fragments collected and verified by The New York Times and analyzed by experts.
The Israeli military claimed that it had proof that the Hamas tunnels were underneath Al-Rantisi Hospital. Israeli military officials said that they found weapons under the hospital, which they said is evidence of Hamas’ operations there.
The analysis of video footage shows that three projectiles were fired into the hospital from the north and south, contrary to the map released by the I.D.F. which it said was based on radar detections. Satellite images showed there were I.D.F. positions in the north and south of the hospital.
The Ministry of Health also reported Tuesday that the bodies of 170 Palestinians were buried in a mass grave in the hospital’s courtyard due to the ongoing siege.
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“Our staff says there is no power,” said Caney. The people are stuck in the corridors because they cannot get any of the patients to an ambulance because of gunfire near the windows.
More than 11, 200 Palestinians in Gaza have died, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The death toll is rising due to Israel’s siege on the region. The health officials said there have been difficulties updating the tally in the past due to service and communication disruptions.
The continued fighting has also meant other injured patients and displaced Palestinians who fear evacuating to the south are crowded into hospitals in the north for shelter.
Gaza health officials said the basement was “included in the design of the hospital and includes the administration and hospital stores. It has become a shelter place for displaced people fleeing the bombing to take shelter inside the hospital.”
“By the end of today, around 70 per cent of people in Gaza will not have clean water. Key services including water desalination plants, sewage treatments and hospitals have ceased to operate,” Lazzarini said.
The statement claimed that the fuel was used as a weapon of war. UNRWA has been requesting fuel in support of the humanitarian operation in Gaza for the past five weeks. This seriously paralyses our work and the delivery of assistance to the Palestinian communities in Gaza.”
The military entered the largest hospital in Gaza and found equipment used by Hamas, according to Israel.
A senior Israeli defense official told the media that Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters and killed four of them on the street outside a hospital.
Thousands of liters of fuel allowed into Gaza after weeks of restrictions from Israelis, according to UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini
The official said troops then entered before dawn Wednesday, local time, to search a specific part of the hospital complex, which he did not name. The official did not give any more details regarding the weapons found there.
Hamas denounced the actions by the Israeli military early Wednesday, but it denied the claim by the Israeli military that there were people in the hospital.
More than 23,000 liters of fuel were allowed into Gaza Wednesday after weeks of restrictions from Israelis, according to Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees, or UNRWA.
Israeli forces on Wednesday entered Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Rantisi Hospital after the final blast of the conflict, officials said. The military claimed it had proof that Hamas tunnels were under the hospital. The analysis of video footage showed three projectiles were fired into the hospital from the north and south, contrary to the map released by the I.D.F.