The Times of Israel, citing the Israeli military, reports that the military has taken control of al-Shifa Hospital and detained 80 people.
The report also says Israeli troops exchanged fire with Hamas fighters within the health facility, in a gunfight that killed and wounded several Hamas members and “lightly wounded” one Israeli soldier.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s siege of the hospital is threatening the lives of hundreds of displaced people, patients and medical staff sheltering there. It says anyone who flees the facility is being targeted by “sniper bullets and quadrocopter”, in an assault it describes as a “massacre against the sick, the wounded, the displaced”.
Israel claims gunmen fired at them from inside al-Shifa Hospital
The Israeli military claims that Hamas gunmen opened fire on them from inside al-Shifa Hospital.
“During the encirclement, terrorists opened fire from within the hospital compound at our forces, who returned fire and hit the terrorists. Our forces continue to operate in the area of the hospital,” it said in a statement.
Israeli forces have besieged the hospital after claiming they hold “concrete evidence” that Hamas is operating from inside the medical facility in northern Gaza.
“[Israeli forces] are now working in a targeted manner to counter terrorism and arrest terrorists in the area of Shifa Hospital,” the statement added.
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