The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a paragraph on Saturday (16 December) showing what the army claimed to have seized from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. Source: Reuters.
According to AFP, the Israeli military said it had found ** in a military "activity" carried out in a hospital in Gaza and arrested about 80 Hamas members.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on December 13 that Israeli forces had imposed a "siege" on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City for several days, during which they had "fired into the ward" and arrested hospital staff.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on the same day that the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital and about 70 other medical staff were "being held in an unknown location outside the hospital." The Israeli army released five doctors and female staff, but there were reports of "ill-treatment" of detainees.
The Israeli army said on Saturday (16th) that the army had "completed its activities in the area of Kamal Adwan Hospital", while saying that the hospital "was used by Hamas as a command and control center". During the operation, Israeli forces "arrested about 80 *** and destroyed the terrorist infrastructure in the area", found "a large number of ***" and "interrogated hospital staff".
In a statement on the same day, Hamas accused the Israeli army of carrying out "horrific large-scale **" in the hospital, saying that it "used bulldozers to destroy" the "tents of displaced people" who had taken refuge in the hospital, causing "many deaths".
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released a report on the 16th, saying that this year is the highest number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since the agency began records in 2005.
As of December 15, a total of 477 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem this year, including 278 children, including 70 children, who lost their lives after the outbreak of a new round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on October 7, according to the data.
The report also shows that Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have also increased since the outbreak of the current round of conflict. Prior to 7 October, there were an average of 21 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians per week in the area, and after 7 October, that number increased to 35.
In addition, the IDF's accidental killing of three hostages has also aroused widespread international concern in recent days, and the Times of Israel said on the 16th local time that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said at a press conference that night that he and the country were saddened by the incident. However, Netanyahu said that despite international pressure, the IDF's ground operations in the Gaza Strip will continue to advance.
However, Reuters said on December 16** that just as Israel bombed targets across Gaza, two Egyptian security sources said that Israel** now appears to be willing to exchange Palestinian hostages for Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
David Barnea, head of Israel's Mossad (data map) Source: AFP.
The head of Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, met with the Qatari prime minister in Europe on Friday night, or in connection with the hostage exchange, the people also said. The meeting between Mossad chief David Barnea and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani was apparently the first between senior Israeli and Qatari leaders, who had been acting as mediator since the seven-day ceasefire between Israel and Kazakhstan broke down in late November.
*丨General.