Jerusalem:
Israeli troopers captured round 100 suspected Hamas militants throughout a raid in Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, the navy mentioned on Monday.
Gaza well being officers and Hamas have denied any militant presence on the hospital, which Israeli forces stormed on Friday and left on Saturday.
“The troopers apprehended roughly 100 terrorists from the compound, together with terrorists who tried to flee through the evacuation of civilians. Contained in the hospital, they discovered weapons, terror funds, and intelligence paperwork,” the navy mentioned.
Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and broken the hospital, which had already been struggling to function with heavy Israeli raids within the space.
“Just a few of the absolutely recognized terrorists disguised themselves as medical employees so we did not have any various however to examine the medical employees as effectively,” a navy official informed journalists in a web-based briefing.
Footage circulated by Gaza’s well being ministry on Saturday – which Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm – confirmed harm to a number of buildings after the Israeli forces withdrew.
The navy official mentioned that troops had precipitated restricted harm to the hospital when getting into it and that troopers additionally needed to destroy what he described as “twin use” gear, like oxygen tanks, which if detonated may have harmed anybody on the advanced.
Medical staffers refused to evacuate the hospital or go away their sufferers unattended. A whole bunch of displaced Palestinians had additionally been sheltering there.
“They evacuated all those that had been sheltering right here…They separated males from girls and made two queues, it was very humiliating for our males since they took them with out garments and nothing to cowl with,” mentioned Mayssoun Alian, a hospital nurse.
The navy official mentioned that suspected Hamas males arrested had been stripped to examine them for weapons. “After checking them we provided them with garments,” he mentioned.
Gaza medics mentioned no less than two kids had died contained in the intensive care unit after Israeli hearth hit the mills and oxygen station within the facility on Friday.
The navy mentioned civilians on the hospital had been stored protected, regardless of heavy preventing close to the advanced. Gasoline, medical gear and blood items had been supplied to the hospital and electrical energy and oxygen provide had been ensured, it mentioned.
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