Aerial view of the area in the Gaza Strip where the Indonesian hospital Maxar Technologies/Portal 11/26/23 is located
The Israeli army reported on Monday (25) that it found the car of one of the accidentally killed hostages, Samer Talaka, in the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, as well as one of the white vans that militants of the terrorist group Hamas carried in the attack on January 7. October were used to infiltrate Israel.
“During operational activities, troops found evidence linking Hamas terrorist activities to the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement.
Talaka's vehicle was a Toyota Corolla with Israeli license plates, in which blood stains were found that were identified as belonging to another hostage.
Takala is one of three hostages accidentally killed by Israeli troops during fighting in Shujaiya, on the edge of the Gaza Strip, a week ago. “The discovery of the vehicle directly links the hospital to the brutal events of October 7,” the Army said.
Terror center
According to Israel, the Indonesian hospital, established in Jabalia in 2015, is a site that “Hamas uses to hide behind sick civilians and from which terrorist infrastructure operates.”
“The Indonesian hospital serves as a meeting point for conducting battles and as a base for highranking officials and agents of the terrorist organization Hamas. It has extensive terror infrastructure and there are tunnels nearby that lead to a tunnel route under the hospital,” he added.
According to Israel, the Indonesian hospital is the underground strategic center of Hamas's Jabalia battalion. During the war, armed agents from the Nukhba Unit Hamas's elite force were seen at the hospital, which they used as a base to meet before setting off on their activities.
Israel claims that Hamas is using hospitals as barracks and, under this pretext, has besieged, evacuated and attacked hospitals such as Shifa and Rantisi in Gaza City since the beginning of the war; Nasser, in Khan Younis; and Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia.
Caravan with 7,000 immigrants makes its way to the Mexican border with the United States
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