The Islamist group Hamas stated that The Israeli army was carrying out “intense bombing.” in the early afternoon, near several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, where Telephone and Internet communications were cut off. just before.
“Intense shelling has been going on around the hospitals for more than an hour,” the Hamas government’s press service reported.
The attacks occurred mainly near the Al Shifa hospital.the largest in the Gaza Strip, according to the same source.
The attacks took place shortly after the Israeli military once again accused Hamas of using hospitals in the conflict.
The Israeli army released images this Sunday that supposedly show members of Hamas shooting from a hospital in Gaza and expose the existence of a missile launch site 75 meters from a hospital under which Hamas tunnels are located.
Hamas categorically denied the accusations and said Israel was looking for a pretext to attack hospitals.
The Hamas government said it was ready to receive “an international commission of inquiry” inspect hospitals and ensure that not used for military purposes for the movement.
Israel today cut telephone and Internet lines in the Gaza Strip, for the third time since the start of the war on October 7, announced the Palestinian operator Paltel.
Shortly after the blackout, The Israeli army launched intense bombardments in Gaza City. and other areas of the northern Gaza Strip. TOThe explosions were so intense that could be heard in Rafah, in the extreme south of the Palestinian territory, according to a France-Presse (AFP) journalist present at the scene.
Considered terrorist by the EU, the United States and Israel, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas carried out an attack of unprecedented proportions on Israeli territory on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and more than 200 hostages. who is being held captive in the Gaza Strip.
A strong retaliation by Israel then began against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts in food, water, electricity and fuel supplies and daily bombingsfollowed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of Gaza City on Thursday.
According to the latest Hamas report, published today, 9,770 people, including 4,800 children and 2,550 women, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7 in retaliatory bombings by Israel.
Source: TSF
