JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli army is close to destroying the Hamas military system in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF secretary general said on Thursday, almost six weeks after the start of the unprecedented offensive launched in the Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas attack.
“We are close to destroying the military system that existed in the northern Gaza Strip. We are going to complete this,” said General Herzi Halevi.
The Israeli army also reported that the body of one of the 240 people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 was found by its soldiers near Al Chifa hospital, the largest hospital complex in the enclave, located in Gaza City.
The IDF this week carried out a siege on Al Chifa hospital, which its troops entered on Wednesday, accusing Hamas of storing weapons and other military equipment there and housing a major command center.
An “operational tunnel” and a “vehicle containing a large number of weapons” were found by Israeli troops in Al Chifa hospital, the army said on Thursday, which had previously indicated that it had found weapons at the scene. grenades or even bulletproof vests.
(Reporting Ari Rabinovitch, James Mackenzie; French version Jean Terzian)
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