The Israeli army claimed on Tuesday to have taken control of government buildings belonging to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza city, including those of parliament, government and police.
Since the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, which Tel Aviv authorities say killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, the Israeli army has been relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip and its tanks are now putting pressure on the siege of the Gaza city. , especially around hospitals, which Hamas claims are used by Hamas as logistical and military bases.
[“O exército israelita tomou o controlo de] the Hamas parliament, the government headquarters, the Hamas police headquarters and a technical faculty used for the production and development of weapons”reads a military statement.
Social media shows images of Israeli soldiers unfurling Israel’s blue-and-white flag on the podium of Parliament headquarters, as well as soldiers posing in front of a wall marked “Military Police Headquarters.”
The Palestinian parliament, which is supposed to be headquartered in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian National Authority (ANP) is located, is not functioning and was officially dissolved in 2018.
Since Hamas expelled the Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007, the two Palestinian territories have been dependent on parallel authorities.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombardments from the air, sea and now from tanks on the ground have killed more than 11,000 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, an organization that Hamas considers terrorist. the Union, Europe, the United States and Israel.
Source: DN
