- An IDF spokesman says the military “is not overrunning” Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, asserting Israeli troops are conducting a “precise and targeted operation against a specific location… in order to defeat Hamas and perhaps rescue hostages.”
- “Our goal is to bring [the hostages] home. Our goal is to seek out Hamas wherever they are hiding,” Lt. Col. (res.) Peter Lerner tells CNN, describing the hospital as “perhaps even the beating heart” of the terror group’s operations.
11.14.23 8:10 PM EST Anderson Cooper @andersoncooper on @AC360 w/ @IDF Spokesperson Lt Col Peter Lerner (ret ) @LTCPeterLerner (5:39) pic.twitter.com/kg60kzqoQq
— Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) November 15, 2023
- Army says Al-Shifa management notified before soldiers launched ‘targeted operation.
Source: TOI
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Youssef Abul Reesh, an official from the Hamas-run health ministry who is inside Gaza’s Shifa hospital, where the terror group is accused of maintaining a command center, says he saw Israeli tanks inside the complex and “dozens of soldiers and commandos inside the emergency and reception buildings.”
Estimates for the number of patients, staff and displaced people inside the hospital complex range from the hundreds, to tens of thousands, with the true number impossible to independently verify.
Israel believes that some of the some 240 hostages in Gaza could be held captive in Hamas’s labyrinth of tunnels and rooms beneath the hospital.
The IDF said it had provided evacuation routes for civilians and given Hamas 12 hours’ notice that any military operation inside the hospital must cease.
Source: TOI
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