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8:13 a.m., November 11, 2023
The Israeli army surrounds several hospitals in Gaza. Ground fighting is taking place in sensitive areas where there are civilians, notably in an area adjacent to Al-Shifa hospital. This Hamas HQ is presented by the IDF as the heart of Hamas’s operational and intelligence activities.
The Israeli general staff nicknames it the “military quarter”. The Hamas command has installed its intelligence service, two training camps and weapons production sites there. For the IDF, this is an extremely delicate operation because all around there are mosques, schools and a hospital. That of Al-Shifa, one of the largest in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Several terrorists located on the floors of a hospital
It is also under the roof of the hospital complex that the heads of Hamas, which Israel has promised to annihilate, are hiding. Buried in hundreds of kilometers of tunnels and with dozens of entrances and exits.
According to a military source, several terrorists were located on the floors of a hospital. Hamas has “built a human iron dome, a sort of human shield to protect its activities behind Palestinian civilians,” continues this source.
At this time, the Guivati brigade which operates in this area does not go underground. The IDF is doing everything to circumvent this solution because according to Israeli intelligence, most of these tunnels are heavily booby-trapped.