For the second day in a row, Israel attacked Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on Thursday.
Starting around two in the morning on Wednesday, Israeli forces attacked the major medical institution located in the coastal enclave. Israel has maintained for years that Hamas was operating a command center out of the hospital. According to the Israeli army, the operation assisted them in locating proof to support their claims.
What did the hospital find?
Video footage from an unnamed structure within the hospital facility made public by the Israeli military. The military alleges in the video that three duffel bags carrying an assault weapon, grenades, Hamas uniforms, and flak jackets discovered stashed in an MRI lab. The army also displayed assault guns without ammo clips and a laptop that it claimed to have located. “These weapons have absolutely no business being inside a hospital,” Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said, adding that he thought the information was “just the top of the iceberg.”
What about military command and the tunnels of Hamas?
Israel said that Hamas was running tunnels beneath al-Shifa Hospital in the days preceding the attack. It also asserted that the hospital served as Hamas’ military outpost and command center. President of the United States Joe Biden, who charged Hamas with war crimes for housing its military headquarters beneath the hospital, supported Israel’s assertions. Nevertheless, the Israeli army has not provided any proof of Hamas-run tunnels or a military command center beneath the hospital more than 24 hours after the invasion began.
Do Israel’s assertions have any gaps?
The general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, stated that the footage Israel had so far revealed from beneath al-Shifa Hospital might have easily been staged by the army. The seasoned Palestinian lawmaker said Al Jazeera, “All they’ve shown is a laptop and a Kalashnikov that they could have put there easily and claim that it was found there.” The Israeli army initially shared a video of Conricus giving viewers a tour of several areas of al-Shifa on X, previously Twitter, claiming that the footage was uncut and unedited. However, it removed that post and subsequently uploaded a nearly similar video with a few changes. This stoked doubts about the validity of Israel’s statements on social media.
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