Israeli military released more evidence on Monday that supported their claims that radical Islamic terrorists are using a Shifa hospital in Palestine as a headquarters.
Video appears to show a Hamas fighter casually enter the hospital armed with an RPG, and later fire from the complex.
Fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian terrorists in northern Gaza caused another 200,000 people to flee south in the past 10 days, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday.
The pro-Hamas humanitarian office, known as OCHA, said only one hospital in the north is capable of treating patients. Some of the fighting is around hospitals where patients, newborns and medics are stranded with no electricity and dwindling supplies.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as cover for its fighters, alleging that Hamas has set up its main command center in and beneath Shifa hospital, the largest in the besieged territory.
Both Hamas and Shifa hospital staff, who are controlled by Hamas, deny the Israeli allegations.
Take a look and decide for yourself —
What could these Hamas terrorists possibly be doing with an RPG at the Quds Hospital? pic.twitter.com/Ajpnz0Hf4Q
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 13, 2023
More than two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since the war began. Israel offers safety corridors for civilians to escape the fighting, and accuses Hamas of firing on civilians to keep them in place.
But the southern part of Gaza is not much safer than the north. Israel carries out frequent airstrikes against what it says are militant targets that sometimes kill women and children.
For decades, Hamas has had a well-documented strategy of using human shields. Critics say Hamas use dead civilians as a propaganda tool and deliberately hide their weapons and fighters among civilians.
Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory, is the focus of Israel’s campaign to crush Hamas following the terrorist group’s deadly Oct. 7 surprise attack into southern Israel that set off the war.
More than 1,200 people in Israel died in the massacre, most of them in the Hamas attack, and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the radical Islamic terrorists. Their fate remains uncertain. Hamas militants have continuously fired rockets at Israeli civilian centers since their deadly attack.
Thousands have died in Gaza from the Israeli attack, but the exact number is unknown. Hamas claims 12,000 are dead, but are known to inflate numbers. The terrorist group does not disclose how many of it’s militants have been killed.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military says it has seized a series of government buildings in central Gaza City as its offensive against the ruling Hamas militant group advances.
The army said Tuesday that it has captured Gaza’s legislature building, the Hamas police headquarters and a compound housing Hamas’ military intelligence headquarters.
“In every location, the enemy forces were eliminated, the location was demolished,” an Israeli commander identified only as Lt. Col. Gilad said in a video from Gaza released by the army. He said documents and other items taken from the locations were being studied.
The captured buildings carry high symbolic value, though it was unclear what their strategic value is. Hamas fighters are believed to be positioned in underground bunkers.
Israeli news sites showed pictures of Israeli soldiers hoisting the Israeli national flag and military flags in some of the buildings.
Troops of the IDFs Golani Brigade posing with an Israeli flag inside Gaza’s parliament building in Gaza City’s main Omar Al-Mukhtar street, after seizing the site. A clear illustration of Hamas’ loss of control over Gaza. pic.twitter.com/U80Z6tXTM7
— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) November 13, 2023
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article