Jerusalem:
Israeli squaddies captured round 100 suspected Hamas militants all through a raid in Kamal Adwan sanatorium in northern Gaza, the army stated on Monday.
Gaza condition officers and Hamas have denied any militant presence on the sanatorium, which Israeli forces stormed on Friday and left on Saturday.
“The soldiers apprehended approximately 100 terrorists from the compound, including terrorists who attempted to escape during the evacuation of civilians. Inside the hospital, they found weapons, terror funds, and intelligence documents,” the army stated.
Gaza’s condition ministry stated the troops had detained dozens of male clinical staffers and broken the sanatorium, which had already been suffering to function with large Israeli raids within the department.
“A few of the fully identified terrorists disguised themselves as medical staff so we didn’t have any alternative but to check the medical staff as well,” an army legitimate informed newshounds in a web-based briefing.
Photos circulated through Gaza’s condition ministry on Saturday – which Reuters may now not instantly test – confirmed injury to a number of constructions later the Israeli forces withdrew.
The army legitimate stated that troops had brought about restricted injury to the sanatorium when coming into it and that squaddies additionally needed to ruin what he described as “dual use” apparatus, like oxygen tanks, which if detonated can have harmed any individual on the advanced.
Clinical staffers refused to evacuate the sanatorium or drop their sufferers unattended. Masses of displaced Palestinians had additionally been sheltering there.
“They evacuated all those who were sheltering here…They separated men from women and made two queues, it was very humiliating for our men since they took them without clothes and nothing to cover with,” stated Mayssoun Alian, a sanatorium caregiver.
The army legitimate stated that suspected Hamas males arrested had been stripped to test them for guns. “After checking them we supplied them with clothes,” he stated.
Gaza medics stated no less than two youngsters had died throughout the in depth offer unit later Israeli fireplace clash the turbines and oxygen station within the facility on Friday.
The army stated civilians on the sanatorium had been saved preserve, regardless of large preventing similar the advanced. Gasoline, clinical apparatus and blood devices were equipped to the sanatorium and electrical energy and oxygen provide were ensured, it stated.
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