Israeli troops raid al-Shifa hospital again

Tel Aviv troops once again entered the Shifa and once again searched its rooms, departments and basement. This follows the raid on November 15 when the Israeli army first entered the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, for a "targeted" operation against Hamas. There are thousands of people in the hospital including patients, doctors, nurses and displaced people. “We are conducting a targeted operation against Hamas in a specific sector of Al Shifa hospital,” the army said in a statement. Israeli soldiers interrogated some people in the hospital, including patients and doctors, while tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the facility, a journalist working with AFP said.  The soldiers searched under and around the hospital for the so-called 'beating heart' of Hamas, the headquarters of the Islamic resistance movement in Gaza city.

For weeks the Israeli military commands, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have repeated to the world, with the support of US intelligence, that Shifa hides a large structure, perhaps at multiple levels and connected to every point of Gaza through a web of tunnels that allows Hamas to organize its attack plans against Israel. However, these impressive "terrorist infrastructures" have not emerged, at least not in the proportions hypothesized by the army and the Zionist regime. Speaking to CNN, a military spokesman, Richard Hecht, without providing any visual evidence, said "that there is a substantial Hamas structure in the area, in the vicinity of the hospital. Potentially under the hospital, and that's something we're working on. It will take time. This war is a complex war." Hamas for its part denied that there were any of its weapons at Al Shifa.