Steven Zimmerman, Reporter, New Mexico
The following is an update from the IDF about the situation in the Shifa Hospital.
We must share this information with you so that you may share it with those around you. When it comes to IDF actions within hospitals, Israel is seen as the bad guy. The world does not want to see Hamas as the one creating bunkers and offensive positions within hospitals.
The Chief of the General Staff conducted a situational assessment in the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and continued to visit the Golani Brigade at the northern border.
Today (Wednesday), the Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi, conducted a situational assessment at the Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, together with the Commanding Officer of the Southern Command, MG Yaron Finkelman, the Commanding Officer of the 162nd Division, BG Itzik Cohen, the Commanding Officer of Shayetet 13, Capt. A’, and other commanders.
Following the situational assessment, the Chief of the General Staff toured the Lebanon border with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command, MG Ori Gordin, the Commanding Officer of the 91st Division, BG Shay Kalper, and the Commanding Officer of the 36th Division, BG Dado Bar Kalifa. LTG Halevi then discussed this with commanders and soldiers of the Golani Brigade, who had come out of the fighting in Gaza and are now deployed in the north.
Attached are the full remarks of the Chief of the General Staff:
“So far, the results are good, but see, we are targeting the leaders. Marwan Issa, the arrest of senior operatives. This is very, very important for pressuring Hamas, it’s very important for pressuring the negotiations as well, and we are serving two purposes here. A heavy strike on Hamas, dismantling Hamas, killing Hamas’ military leadership, striking the civil leadership, striking the operatives. And not to allow such a place to be controlled, and we are also putting pressure on the negotiations. We came here to apprehend many operatives, with an emphasis on senior operatives, and to kill those who fight. We prefer prisoners, they are important cards, for interrogations, you understand this, to kill whoever fights. So far, the performance of the mission is very good. The method of operation, I tell you, from the start we’ve been talking about the element of surprise operations, deception, and here maybe the best example so far of using it. A surprising arrival, to a place that Hamas returned to, turned it into a center of activity, a command and control center, operating from within it, managing from within it an attempt to control the northern Strip. And then truly a surprising arrival in just minutes, good closure, entry of forces. See, entry into combat in a hospital compound, teams, patients, those taking shelter. All these things together, with the firing here about 20 terrorists who were killed on entry. The level of combat and mission performance in the first stage is very very high.”
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