Alright... so there was no fighting at all inside the hospital, evidence of weapons or Hamas' use of the facility as a command center still to come...
IDF, I'm still waiting for you to validate your claims and make sure you're not pulling a Bush.
“Trust us bro, we will show you the evidence if... oops, we mean when we find it. And if we don’t show you anything, it doesn’t mean we don’t have it, we just don’t want to show it. But it’s super real, definitely existing, non-fabricated proof.
Sincerely, The IDF”
"IDF exposes countless military equipment". IDK, I can count how much they found.
Under the assumption this isn't fabricated, as much as the IDF wants to embellish it, the "grab bags" to equip at best a dozen militants, (and perhaps up to 50 if the same things are found across all wings), definitely is totally good rationale and a proportional response to invade the hospital with tanks, starve the hospital of fuel and resources causing several dozen patients to die, and displace the sick and injured to the limited number of places they can go and receive care.
So good for them, they found a few bags with guns, grenades armour and a laptop. I was honestly expecting more of a cache if this was truly their "central command center".
they've only searched one ward so far.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Munir al-Boursh, a doctor inside the Dar al-Shifa hospital and a Palestinian health ministry undersecretary, had earlier appealed to approaching Israeli forces to exercise caution.
A spokesperson for the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, told Al Jazeera Arabic that “only doctors, patients and displaced people” were present when Israeli forces entered the hospital’s emergency department.
Hamas said the IDF’s claims were “nothing but a continuation of the lies and cheap propaganda, through which [Israel] is trying to give justification for its crime aimed at destroying the health sector in Gaza”.
The raid continued well into the afternoon, though details were scant due to a widespread telecommunications blackout, which the two major Palestinian telecoms networks said had been caused by a lack of fuel.
The Palestinian health ministry said 40 patients died on Tuesday, after five days without the fuel needed to power generators that fed dialysis machines and other vital medical equipment.
The UN’s office for humanitarian affairs said staff at al-Shifa, for decades the linchpin of Gaza’s medical system, had begun preparations for a mass grave to entomb 180 bodies in front of the facility, as there was no way for them to leave in order to bury the dead.
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