- Israeli troops withdrew from Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza
- Palestinians said they found dead bodies inside and outside the facility
- Less than a third of the Gaza Strip's 36 hospitals remain at least partially open
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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City complex housing the Shifa Hospital, after a two-week raid in which the military said it detained or killed hundreds of terror suspects.
The military confirmed that its forces had left the hospital after earlier describing the Shifa raid as one of the most successful operations of the nearly six-month war, saying it killed scores of Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...and other terrorists, as well as seizing valuable intelligence.
The military also said Monday that it had lost its 600th soldier since the war began on October 7. Staff Sergeant Nadav Cohen, 20, from Haifa, was killed fighting in southern Gaza as part of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion. He was the 256th soldier to fall during the military’s ground offensive in Gaza. Most of the other soldiers were killed repelling Hamas’s assault, and 10 have been killed in festivities with Hezbollah on the northern border.
During the Shifa Hospital raid, which began March 18, the IDF said troops captured some 900 suspects of whom more than 500 were confirmed to be terror operatives, and killed more than 200 button men. Among those killed and detained were top commanders in Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
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s and shells had hit the area around the medical complex overnight Monday, with Hamas saying the Israeli strikes had provided cover for the withdrawing tanks, armored vehicles, and troops.
Despite overwhelming evidence, Hamas has denied operating from Shifa and other health facilities.
Following the IDF withdrawal, scenes of widespread devastation were revealed at the hospital, where many of the button men trapped had refused to surrender and engaged in fierce battles with Israeli troops.
"Dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, have been recovered from in and around the Shifa medical complex," the Hamas-run health ministry said in a statement.
The Israeli military "withdrew from the Shifa medical complex after burning down the complex buildings and putting it completely out of service," the ministry run by the terror group said, adding that "the scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large."
"No hospital in the world looks like this. This is what a house of murderous Moslems looks like," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Sunday news conference.
Some 350 patients and medical staff at Shifa Hospital were evacuated by the IDF to a "designated compound" in another part of the complex, where the military provided them with humanitarian aid
and supplies.An additional 6,200 civilians sheltering at the medical center were evacuated from the premises, the IDF said.
As the IDF withdrew from Shifa, fighting continued in other parts of Gaza.
In central Gaza, the IDF said an attack helicopter carried out a strike two buildings used by Hamas, one of which was booby-trapped and had been used to observe Israeli troops.
In other airstrikes in Gaza, the IDF said it killed terror operatives who were an "immediate threat" to ground troops, including a sniper. In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the IDF said troops of the Commando Brigade and Givati Brigade were continuing to battle Hamas in the al-Amal neighborhood. Amid the operation in al-Amal, troops killed numerous button men in close-quarters combat, detained terror suspects, and located weapons over the past day, the IDF said.
In another area of Khan Younis, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade and Israeli Air Force struck several Hamas targets, including a truck driving toward the troops and another car with operatives inside, which were perceived as threats.
As fighting continued, the US continued with efforts to stop a promised Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than 1.5 million displaced Paleostinians are sheltering.
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