Israel's military claims it has captured "dozens" of terror suspects during a raid on southern Gaza's main hospital, as staff and patients were forced to flee under gunfire.
Israel said it launched a "precise and limited mission" at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, adding it had intelligence that Hamas had held hostages there.
Hamas dismissed the claim as "lies".
Nasser is one of the few hospitals still functioning in Gaza, and has been the scene of intense fighting between the IDF and Hamas for days.
Thursday's operation came a day after the IDF ordered thousands of displaced people who had been sheltering at the site to leave.
The hospital's director told the BBC that conditions inside were "catastrophic and very dangerous".
The Israel Defense Forces' chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said among those captured was a participant in Hamas's attack inside Israel on 7 October, "an ambulance driver for Hamas" who had driven a hostage into Gaza, and a member of the armed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine group.
He said that interrogations of "terrorists who were arrested or surrendered in the area" and the testimonies of freed hostages, had "determined that kidnapped Israelis were previously held in the hospital compound".
However, he said Israeli special forces involved in the hospital raid had yet to find any evidence of kidnapped Israelis and that the search was continuing.
His comments came hours…
Read more@BallotSadieSocialist4mos4MO
Why is the western world allowing this????? So tired of the US sending money to enable this
@PolicyCodyRepublican4mos4MO
You were cheering on Oct 7 stop complaining now
@BallotSadieSocialist4mos4MO
I am Jewish so I was devastated and still devastated about October 7th and the hostages..nice try tho
IDF:
"We have credible intelligence that Hamas held hostages in Nasser Hospital.
“Since the Hamas massacre of October 7, the IDF has been operating to fulfill its mission of dismantling Hamas and bringing our hostages home.”
@D3mocratDoughnutGreen4mos4MO
Oh, well look at that! The IDF has "credible intelligence" that Hamas held hostages in Nasser Hospital.
Gee, I wonder where they got that "credible intelligence" from? Maybe from the same place they got the "credible intelligence" that there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq?
And, of course, the IDF is now "operating" inside the hospital to "dismantle Hamas" and "bring the hostages home." Because, you know, it's not like they're just using that as an excuse to terrorize the people of Gaza and destroy vital infrastructure.
@ThrusheRayGreen4mos4MO
Well, isn't this just great news? Israel has decided to add "bombing hospitals in the middle of the night" to its already impressive repertoire of war crimes. Because, you know, the Palestinians haven't suffered enough already.
And, of course, they had to bomb the patient ward, because, you know, what's a little extra pain and suffering for people who are already wounded and traumatized by Israeli aggression?
Doctor Haytham Ahmed has been taken from Nasser hospital by the Israeli forces.
@ThrusheRayGreen4mos4MO
he’s a doctor for crying out loud! Where’s the outrage?! Israel went from we never attack hospitals to attacking every hospital and attacking and kidnapping doctors and medical staff!! THIS IS A WAR CRIME WAKE UP AND CALL FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE!!
@AmnestyPiperDemocrat4mos4MO
How many underground tunnels does Hamas have? Where are Deif and Sinwar hiding? How are they still safe? Why isn't that safety provided for Gazans?
Sounds like a Hamas problem to me.
@EcstaticPollingGreen4mos4MO
Remember similar accussations were made based on these "credible evidences"
@Pr0gressiveAlexRepublican4mos4MO
well, when a terror organization operates from within a hospital, attacking the building, which in no longer a hospital, but rather terror headquarters, after said terror organization brutally rapes, abuses, murders, and kidnaps hundreds of people - IS self defense.
That's how.
Dont support terror. stop telling yourself its "resistance", you wont get bombed.
@EcstaticPollingGreen4mos4MO
Do you or your israel have evidence to prove a hospital being used as khamas command centre? (By evidence i mean actual evidence not some animated movie)
@Pr0gressiveAlexRepublican4mos4MO
yes, we do. tons of it. so much, its not even funny anymore.
@AmnestyPiperDemocrat4mos4MO
> Hamas leadership says underground tunnels are for fighters only
You: GUYS YOU CAN NEVER TRUST THE ZIONISTS.
@EcstaticPollingGreen4mos4MO
Accurate, because Zionists never told truth
@AmnestyPiperDemocrat4mos4MO
Whether that’s true or not, your side — pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, whatever — is incapable of coherent thought.
Hamas is telling us that they don’t want to provide shelter for civilians and that Gazans WANT to die.
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