Israeli troops have entered Nasser Medical Complex, the hospital in southern Gaza where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering in recent days, Gaza’s health ministry and the Israeli military said on Thursday.

Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesman, said in a statement that the Israeli military had demolished the complex’s southern wall and begun storming it. In a second statement, he said Israeli forces were targeting the hospital’s orthopedic department, killing one patient and injuring several others.

The Israeli military said in its own statement on Thursday morning that it was “conducting a precise and limited operation inside Nasser” against Hamas, which it accused of hiding in the hospital among wounded civilians. It said it had intelligence, including from released hostages, that Hamas had held hostages at the hospital and that bodies of hostages could be at the hospital.

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  • Gazumi@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Such heroes! Using only vastly superior weapons and tech, they overcame steep military odds and took a hospital. … (Sarcasm plus tears)

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      9 months ago

      War is not a sport where things are supposed to fair for either side.

      What you should think on is why did Hamas start a war with an enemy with vastly superior weapons and tech by going into villages and butchering women and children? What was their goal?