Latest Updates on Gaza City Clashes Near Al-Shifa Hospital

2023-11-09 18:47:40

The fighting moves to the heart of Gaza City near Al-Shifa Hospital

The fighting between Al-Qassam Brigades fighters and the Israeli army moved into Gaza City, following the army advanced from the south to the “Ansar” government complex, which includes the offices of the security headquarters of the “Hamas” movement, in another step that brings it closer to Al-Shifa Hospital, which Al-Qassam leadership says took From offices, a headquarters was built below it.

Sources in the Palestinian factions told Asharq Al-Awsat that violent, non-stop clashes are taking place in all axes of the Israeli incursion, north and south, including in the vicinity of the government “Ansar Complex”, a complex that includes the offices of the Interior and the headquarters of security services, including intelligence and intelligence. And the National Security Forces of the Hamas government.

Victims near an ambulance damaged in an Israeli raid in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, November 3 (AFP)

The Israeli forces penetrated towards the compound from the south, and army spokesman Daniel Hagari said that the infantry, armored and engineering forces of the 162nd Division, and special forces, took control of the Ansar government compound of Hamas in the heart of Gaza City, near Al-Shifa Hospital.

Hagari confirmed that his forces “cleared” the complex, which is “the heart of Hamas’ intelligence and operational activity,” including extensive underground infrastructure.

On the 34th day of the war, the Israeli army announced that it had killed Ibrahim Abu Mughaseeb, commander of the anti-tank missile system in Hamas’ central camps, and killed 50 militants in the Ansar complex area during fierce fighting.

The announcement of control over the Ansar Government Complex came, while it was also announced that the “17” site, northwest of Jabalia in the north, had been controlled following 10 hours of difficult fighting.

Palestinian families were displaced following Israel bombed the Jabalia neighborhood in the Gaza Strip (Archyde.com)

The Israeli army said that the forces of the “Nahal” Infantry Brigade clashed with “Hamas” and “Islamic Jihad” activists in the Hamas stronghold west of Jabalia, known as “Site 17,” who came “above the ground and on an underground path in the area.” Dozens of militants were killed in the course of the battle.

According to the army, it found combat plans, weapons, and tunnel entrances, one of which was located in a “wide underground path.”

Inside the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, the army said that the forces also found a Hamas drone factory and a weapons warehouse.

The Israeli army shared a video clip showing the forces finding a number of drones in the building, in addition to the equipment used to manufacture them, and instructions for manufacturing explosive devices.

According to the course of its forces, Israel wants to reach Al-Shifa Hospital, which is the main target of the attack on Gaza City, at least at this stage.

According to eyewitnesses, fighting is taking place only regarding one kilometer away from the hospital. Most likely, Israel wants to prove that the Hamas leadership had its central headquarters under the hospital, even if it did not find anyone there, and it may believe that the prisoners and kidnapped persons were placed in rooms under the hospital.

They search for survivors among the rubble of buildings following the Israeli raids on the Jabalia refugee camp on the outskirts of Gaza City, October 31 (AP)

Hamas denied the Israeli accusations, and said Thursday that it continues to confront the invading forces, and expects more losses.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, affiliated with Hamas, confirmed that they blew up tanks and vehicles in many clashes, inflicted losses on the enemy’s ranks, and placed “a Zionist foot force in a tight ambush in Juhr al-Dik,” annihilated them from zero range, and bombed Ashdod and Ra’im in the Gaza Strip with missiles. .

The Israeli army acknowledged that it had suffered additional losses, and said that Major Eliyahu Benjamin Al-Mikayes had fallen in the battle of Gaza, and with his death, the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the ground operation had risen to 35, and others were injured in the battles.

In general, the number of army deaths since the Al-Aqsa flood attack on October 7 last year has risen to 352 soldiers.

While the fighting intensified in the heart of Gaza, the Israeli army continued to bomb large areas, including the road leading to and around Al-Shifa Hospital, more than once.

Israeli aircraft destroyed homes, buildings, and private and public facilities, by land, sea, and air, in the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip, the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip, Shawa Square in Gaza City, the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, announced that the number of victims of the war on Gaza had risen to “10,812 martyrs, including 4,412 children, 2,918 women, 667 elderly people, and 26,905 injured, since the start of the war.”

He also announced that “the Eye Hospital, the Mental Health Hospital, and all medical services for children” had stopped working permanently, and stressed that “the countdown has begun to stop service at the Indonesian Hospital and other hospitals within 24 hours.”

Effects of destruction caused by the occupation’s bombing of homes belonging to the Abu Khater and Abu Hammad families, in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis. It resulted in 5 martyrs and injuries, and there are still missing people under the rubble. pic.twitter.com/DofEDiAP1n

– Salama Maarouf salamamaroof (@salama1977) November 9, 2023

The government media office in the Gaza Strip issued a distress call to rescue the residents of the Strip. He said in a statement: “A distress call… Save Gaza before it is too late.”

He stressed that “the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has reached an unprecedented level of deterioration, reaching what is considered a completely disaster zone.”

He stressed that this comes “in view of the crime of mass starvation practiced by this Nazi occupation once morest our people, along with the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing.”

He continued: “This call may be the last before the service sectors collapse completely, as the next few hours are crucial in terms of the medical system stopping completely, and following an almost complete cessation of the service work system in terms of the municipalities’ ability to supply citizens with water, open closed streets, or transport waste.”

Covered bodies outside the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza City at the end of October (AP)

Israel, which divided the Gaza Strip into northern and southern halves, and the northern area is considered a combat zone, does not respond to any international, Arab and local calls related to bringing aid to the residents in the north, because it wants them to move south.

The Israeli army spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, said on the “X” platform, Thursday, that Israel is once once more opening Salah al-Din Street to traffic in the south between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., calling on residents of the north to take advantage of this window.

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