The Israeli army announced that two soldiers were killed in the battles taking place in the north GazaWhile sirens sounded in areas around the Gaza Strip.
Thus, the total recognized toll rises to about 67 dead since the start of the Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip last October 27, while the Palestinian resistance says that the real occupation losses are much greater than that.
The number of soldiers and officers that the Israeli army announced killed since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli war that followed it, which has entered its 45th day, also rose to 387 dead.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that sirens sounded in the Sderot settlement, northeast of Gaza, and in the areas of Erez, Yad Mordechai, and Netiv Haasara in the Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that it had targeted 7 military vehicles with tandem shells and explosive devices during clashes on the front lines in the northern Gaza Strip.
Al-Shifa Hospital
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said that materials were found proving the arrival of a number of what he described as kidnapped Israelis to a hospital. Healing In Gaza on October 7th.
Hagari accused Hamas of using Al-Shifa Hospital to hold hostages and carry out acts he described as terrorist.
In statements to CNN, the Israeli army spokesman said that Hamas is holding 237 hostages so far, and that the Israeli army is doing everything it can to return them.
He added that the pictures showing a tunnel in Al-Shifa Hospital are clear evidence that it is a command center for the Hamas movement, and that the Israeli army was able to control the northern part of the Gaza Strip and dismantle most of the movement’s operational capabilities there.
The Israeli army published a video clip yesterday, Sunday, of what it described as a tunnel 55 meters long and 10 meters deep. The video clip shows a narrow corridor with an arched concrete ceiling that ends with a gray door, which the army said in a statement is resistant to explosions.
While Hamas admits that it has a network hundreds of kilometers long of secret tunnels, hideouts and openings throughout the Palestinian Strip, it denies that these tunnels are located in civilian infrastructure such as hospitals.
Director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, denied the Israeli statement regarding the tunnel, describing it as a “complete lie.”
Al-Barsh said in an interview with Al Jazeera, “They have been in the hospital for 8 days, and they did not find anything.”
Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip and one of the focuses of the devastating attack launched by Israel 6 weeks ago. At one point, tens of thousands of Palestinians took refuge in it, before the Israeli occupation took them and the wounded out of it two days ago.
