By TV channel El MayadeenThe Israeli army launched an attack on the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. Gunshots can be heard from the western wing of this health complex.
It was previously reported that there were nearly 700 patients and 700 employees in the hospital, and 2 to 3 thousand people were sheltered in the building. However, people cannot leave the hospital due to the constant bombardment of the Israeli army.
The situation in the Middle East deteriorated sharply after militants from the Palestinian Hamas movement entered Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. Radicals described this attack as a response to the actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel announced that it had completely blockaded Gaza and began to carry out retaliatory attacks both in this region and in certain regions of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.
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. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Former Israeli President Isaac Herzog statedThe Hamas command center is located below the central hospital in the Gaza Strip.