The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not surround or bombard Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip. This was stated by Israeli Colonel Moshe Tetro. RIA News.
“In the last hours we received reports that the Şifa hospital was surrounded and under attack,” he said.
Tetreault called this information a “lie.” According to him, near this medical facility there are clashes between Israeli soldiers and fighters of the Palestinian Hamas movement.
“There was no attack on the hospital and there was no siege,” Tetro said.
He also stated that the east side of Şifa is open and anyone who wants can leave the building.
On 11 November, Al Arabiya TV channel reported that the Israeli army was on “both sides”. surrounded Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
On the same day, Iranian news agency Tasnim, quoting sources, reported that forces of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas stopped Israeli troops advance to the Al-Shifa hospital area.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
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