Heavy fighting erupted around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks. Israeli forces are focused on clearing medical facilities that they say Hamas militants use for cover.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting erupted Monday around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, as Israeli forces focus on clearing medical facilities that they say Hamas militants use for cover.

A shell struck the second floor of the Indonesian Hospital, killing at least 12 people, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza and a medical worker inside the facility. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

  • burchalka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    106·
    1 year ago

    Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan dismissed the latest announcement, saying “the Israelis said there was a command and control center, which means that the matter is greater than just a tunnel.”

    Didn’t they have almost a month to clear up the place, and seal off the tunnel entrances, before the first IDF land troops entered the hospital premises?

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      85·
      1 year ago

      Yes. That’s the risk the IDF took by giving civilians time to flee

      Good news is tunnel networks, by definition, are connected. Hamas had to go somewhere.

    • palal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      44·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t this the same video where the IDF claims to use a drone, then cuts to video of someone walking through a tunnel?

      I thought the IDF statement was that they weren’t sending men down the tunnels because it was too dangerous?

    • steventhedev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      510·
      1 year ago
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