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The Israeli army asserts that Kamal Adwan Hospital was “used by Hamas as a command and control center.” The Islamist movement denounces “crimes”.
Published on December 16, 2023 9:19 p.m
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Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli attacks, December 16, 2023. (MAHMOUD SABBAH / ANADOLU / AFP)
The Israeli army announced on Saturday, December 16, that it had discovered weapons and about 80 Hamas soldiers in the area of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which is “used by Hamas as a command and control center.” members arrested. According to the Palestinian Islamist movement, it was an operation that resulted in a “massacre.”
“Soldiers arrested around 80 terrorists,” “destroyed terrorist infrastructure and located numerous weapons,” according to the Israeli army, which said medical personnel were “interrogated.” “Staff admitted that weapons were hidden in incubators intended for premature babies,” the military said.
Hamas, for its part, denounced a “terrible massacre” at the hospital, saying the army had “bulldozed the tents of the displaced people” who had sought refuge there and caused “a number of deaths.” Israeli “crimes” are aimed at “intimidating and expelling our people from their land,” accused the movement that seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007.
Hamas' health ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that the army had fired on patient rooms at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City and denounced a multi-day “siege”, citing arrests of staff. His ministry reported 18,800 deaths in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the start of the war with Israel, sparked by the bloody attack by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil on October 7 that killed around 1,140 people.
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