The military operation comes the day after the director of this hospital announced the death of five members of his staff in an Israeli strike.
Published on 27/12/2024 18:30
Updated on 27/12/2024 18:47
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The Israeli army announced that it had launched an operation on Friday, December 27 against Hamas fighters near one of the last hospitals still operational in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian movement, for its part, accuses the soldiers of having stormed the establishment.
The operation near the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia comes the day after the director of this hospital, Doctor Hossam Abou Safiya, announced the death of five members of his staff in an Israeli bombing. The army of the Hebrew State, questioned by AFP, did not react to this strike in the Gaza Strip, devastated by 14 months of war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas.
On Friday, the army said the hospital had become “a stronghold of terrorist organizations and continues to be used as a hideout by terrorists”. Based on intelligence information, Israeli forces launched an operation near the hospital, according to the army. “The troops are carrying out targeted operations” and try to prevent civilians, patients and medical personnel from being affected, she added.
Before launching the operation near the hospital, the army said its troops had “facilitated the safe evacuation of civilians, patients and medical personnel” of the establishment. But Hamas assures that “the occupying army stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, forcing medical staff, patients, the injured and displaced people to evacuate”. He accused Israeli forces “to detain evacuees”.
