Shifa Hospital, the largest in the strip in central Gaza City, is under siege. The soldiers have surrounded the building under which they believe the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is hiding. He has long been out of circulation and is being hunted by Israel, which sees him as the main responsible for the October 7 massacres. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that the army “will remain in control of Gaza even after the war” despite American warnings, he rejected the idea, promoted by many European leaders, of relying on “international forces” to manage the Gaza Strip. to rely on the Unifil model. According to Israeli intelligence, which has presented various evidence in this regard, including statements from captured militiamen, Shifa hides beneath its surface the central command of the Islamic faction from which it directs all operations. And where it would hold 500,000 liters of fuel. Hamas rejects the allegations and instead speaks of a normal hospital that is currently full of displaced people from the north of the Palestinian enclave.
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“It is an absolute lie that the Hamas command center is hidden under the hospital,” said health facility director Muhammad Abu Salmiya, denouncing that an Israeli raid this morning damaged the hospital’s outpatient clinic. Hamas reported that “13 martyrs” died and dozens were injured in the attack. According to the statement of a Shifa nurse released by Doctors Without Borders, “the facility was hit” while he was on his way to work: “All of us – said Maher Sharif – were horrified, some threw themselves on the ground. I saw corpses, including women and children. A terrible scene that made us all cry. The director of Shifa himself then said that during the day he had received “about fifty bodies after the bombing of a school” in Gaza City, where there were many displaced people. The fighting rages not only around Shifa, but also in other hospitals in Gaza City: Rantisi, Nasser and Al Quds. The first two began evacuating patients along a humanitarian corridor toward the south of the Strip. In contrast to Shifa, where Hamas militants instead prevented hospital staff from letting the patients out. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari denied that there were any bombings in Shifa or Rantisi. But he warned: “If the Israeli army sees Hamas terrorists shooting from hospitals in Gaza, it will do what needs to be done.” As Gaza City’s isolation continued, the army also took control of the office of Muhammad Sinwar, the Hamas leader’s brother, and the deaths of Reua Hamam, nephew of the Qatar-based faction leader Ismail Haniyeh, were announced. In the northern part, Israel continues to dismantle Hamas’ military structures.
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In Jabalya, two leaders of the Nukbha force involved in the October 7 attack were killed: Ahmed Musa and Omar Al-Hindi. Together with them, the head of the Hamas Northern Brigade’s sniper unit, Mohammed Kahlout, was eliminated. Also in the north, the Shati Battalion’s Badr stronghold has been destroyed, with 150 militiamen killed in recent days. The outpost was near a refugee camp and civilian buildings. Meanwhile, a humanitarian corridor reopened today to evacuate the exhausted population from north to south (over 100,000 Palestinians have passed through so far), while the fate of the 240 hostages in the hands of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions remains uncertain. Al Arabiya spread rumors of an agreement to exchange 100 imprisoned Palestinian women and minors for the same number of hostages. But an Israeli political source denied everything. And the military spokesman warned not to “investigate uncontrolled rumors.” While Gaza remains the main front – from where rocket attacks continue against the Jewish state, including Tel Aviv (2 injured) – Lebanon continues to worry Israelis. In the afternoon, three drones entered the north of the country and a missile injured three soldiers. The Lebanese Hezbollah has recalled around 1,500 fighters from northern Syria to their homeland and reported the deaths of seven of its militiamen. In Gaza, the number of casualties announced by Hamas now stands at 11,078 – an estimate that Washington also considers “correct” – while Israel revised the death toll downward from 1,400 to 1,200 on October 7: “Because There were many bodies.” “They were not identified and now we think they belong to terrorists and not Israelis,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat.
Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia will host an extraordinary summit between the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation tomorrow, Saturday, “in response to the extraordinary circumstances in Gaza.” Riyadh is making this known.
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