Bulldozers At Gaza Al Shifa Hospital As Israel Search For Hamas Tunnels

1. Israeli troops stormed into the al Shifa hospital on Wednesday and spent the day deepening their search. In a video, the Israel military confirmed computerized weapons, grenades, ammunition, and flak jackets it mentioned had been recovered from the hospital complicated.

2. “Tonight we performed a focused operation into Shifa Hospital. We proceed to maneuver ahead,” Main Basic Yaron Finkelman, head of Israeli navy operations within the Gaza Strip, mentioned on the military’s Telegram channel.

3. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of constructing a command centre in a tunnel community beneath the hospital – a declare the US says its personal intelligence helps however Hamas denies. The Israeli Defence forces made no point out of discovering any tunnel entrances in al Shifa after their searches.

4. The Palestinean well being ministry mentioned that Israel has deployed bulldozers across the hospital.

5. The United Nations estimates that at the very least 2,300 sufferers, workers, and displaced civilians are contained in the hospital, together with 36 newborns. Three untimely infants died final week after the establishment ran out of gas to maintain the incubators going.

6. The al Shifa hospital director yesterday mentioned water, electrical energy, and oxygen to all departments was reduce off because the Israeli troops stormed into the premises.

7. Worldwide concern over Israel’s assault on civilians in Gaza has elevated since information of Israel’s raid on the hospital emerged. “The safety of newborns, sufferers, medical workers, and all civilians should override all different issues. Hospitals usually are not battlegrounds,” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths mentioned on X.

8. Qatar has sought “an pressing worldwide investigation” involving the United Nations into Israeli troops focusing on hospitals.

9. Benjamin Netanyahu launched an offensive in opposition to Hamas, which guidelines Gaza, after terrorists rampaged by way of southern Israel on October 7. Israel says 1,200 individuals had been killed and a few 240 individuals taken hostage within the deadliest day of its 75-year-old historical past.

10. Since then, Israel has put Gaza’s inhabitants of two.3 million underneath siege and carried out an aerial bombardment. Gaza well being officers, thought of dependable by the United Nations, say about 11,500 Palestinians are confirmed killed, round 40% of them kids, and extra are buried underneath the rubble.

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