Israel learned that hostages held by the Palestinian Hamas movement had been moved to southern Gaza. About this on your blog on the platform bottom stack American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh wrote.
“They (Israeli intelligence – socialbites.ca) also learned that at some point the hostages, like the residents of Gaza City, were moved south as part of the forced migration imposed by Israel,” he said.
Hersh said Israel was “furious” at the doctors at the city’s Al-Shifa hospital who allegedly helped remove the hostages.
Before that, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu statedThere are “serious indications” that Hamas is holding hostages at Al-Shifa Hospital.
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.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promised to destroy It is Hamas.