T. Belman. Israel is not letting the protecting of hostages to be more important than destroying Hamas. Nor should she allow the sparing of the hospital to take precidence. She can start by bombing all around the hospital. The IDF can land on the roof in great number and then start to descend floor by floor into the Hamas infratructure. It must be done.
It will set a precident for all Mosques, hospitals and UNRWA facilities within which Hamas is sheltering and firing rockets. The stakes are too high to play nice.
IDF issues satellite imagery showing Hamas command centers under Gaza hospital
A satellite image issued by the IDF shows what the military says are Hamas command centers buried underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza (IDF)
The IDF issues a graphic overlay of a satellite image of Shifa Hospital, showing what it says are Hamas command centers hidden underneath the hospital.
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Israel: Hamas terror group’s main operations base is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City
Palestinian doctors and medics walk inside the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, May 13, 2021. (AP/Khalil Hamra)<
In a briefing for reporters of international media outlets, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Hamas terror group’s main base of operations is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Hagari says 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.
He notes: “We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacres of October 7.”
He says 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.
Additionally, 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.
“Hagari accuses Hamas of using the hospital — with 1,500 beds and some 4,000 staff — as human shields.”
Instead of bombing or invading the hospital there is a discussion of what terrible Hamas is doing. Strange way of fighting, the same old unsuccessful way…