The News Freedom
Chandigarh, October 27
Israel Defence Forces(IDF) on Friday said that the Hamas terror group’s main base of operations is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In a briefing for reporters of international media outlets, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Hamas has several underground complexes under Shifa — the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip — which are used by the terror group’s leaders to direct attacks against Israel, The Israel Times reported. “We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacres of October 7.” a report said.
“Israel has intelligence that there are several tunnels leading to the underground base from outside the hospital, so that Hamas officials do not need to enter the hospital to reach it. But Hagari adds that there is also an entrance to the underground complex from within one of the wards.” as per The Israel Times report.
A report in The Times also said that according to the IDF, Hamas’s internal security has a command center inside Shifa Hospital, from which it directs rocket fire on Israel and stores weapons. He says that the hospital’s energy infrastructure is also used by Hamas’s underground base.” “Hagari accuses Hamas of using the hospital — with 1,500 beds and some 4,000 staff — as human shields. He says the information on Hamas’s use of the hospital is based on a wide range of intelligence sources collected by the Military Intelligence Directorate and Shin Bet security agency. He says the intel has already been provided to allies.”, the report further said.
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