Gaza health officials and Hamas denied the presence of any gunmen in the hospital, which was stormed Israeli forces on Friday and left on Saturday.
The army said in a statement: “The soldiers arrested about 100 terrorists in the hospital, including dozens who tried to flee the hospital when the forces entered. Combat equipment, money allocated to finance terrorist activities, and documents belonging to Hamas were found.”
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that Israeli forces arrested dozens of male medical staff and damaged the hospital, which is already struggling to operate amid… Israeli raids violence in the region.
“Some of the identified terrorists were completely disguised as medical personnel, so we had no alternative but to search the medical personnel as well,” a military official told reporters in an online briefing.
A video clip distributed by the Ministry of Health showed Gaza On Saturday, several buildings were damaged after the withdrawal of Israeli forces. Reuters has not yet been able to verify the authenticity of the clip.
The military official said that the forces caused limited damage to the hospital when they entered it and that the soldiers also had to destroy what he described as “dual-use” equipment, such as pipes. Oxygen Which could cause injury if it explodes.
Medical teams refused to evacuate the hospital or leave patients without care. The hospital also housed hundreds of displaced Palestinians.
Maysoon Alyan, a nurse at the hospital, said: “They took out all the displaced people here, of course, between men and women. Of course, they separated the men one at a time and separated the women one at a time. Among them was that the men line up one at a time and the women line up one at a time. Of course, it was a great, great, great way of humiliation for them.” To our youth, they took them without covers and without clothes.”
The military official stated that the detainees suspected of belonging to Hamas were stripped of their clothes to ensure that they did not carry weapons. He added, “After searching them, we provided them with clothes.”
Medics said that at least two children died inside the intensive care unit after being hit Israeli fire Generators and oxygen station at the hospital on Friday.
And he said Israeli army Civilians in the hospital remained safe despite heavy fighting near the complex. He added that it was provided Fuel Medical equipment, hospital blood units and supplies electricity And oxygen too.
