The Israeli army claimed this Tuesday to have taken control of government buildings belonging to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza City, including those of Parliament, the Government and the Police.
Since the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, which killed 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to Tel Aviv authorities, the Israeli army has incessantly bombed the Gaza Strip and its tanks are now tightening the siege of the city of Loop. , especially around hospitals, which it claims are used by Hamas as logistical and military bases.
[“O exército israelita tomou o controlo de] the Hamas Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, the headquarters of the Hamas police and an engineering college used for the production and development of weapons,” read a military statement.
On social media, images show Israeli soldiers displaying the blue and white Israeli flag on the dais of the Parliament building, as well as soldiers posing in front of a wall with the inscription “Military Police Headquarters.”
The Palestinian Parliament, which should be based in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is located, does not function and was officially dissolved in 2018.
Since Hamas expelled the Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007, the two Palestinian territories have relied on parallel authorities.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombardments from air, sea and now tanks on land have killed more than 11,000 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, an organization considered a terrorist organization by the European Union. European Union, United States and Israel.
Source: TSF
