2024-03-26 00:25:31
Senior leaders in “Hamas” and “Jihad” escaped the “hospital trap”…but government and field officials commented
Palestinian field sources revealed that the Israeli attack on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would have been a major achievement had not senior leaders of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades and Islamic Jihad left the site, shortly before the start of the attack.
The sources confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the soldiers of the Israeli special forces who infiltrated the hospital as members of a charitable organization were immediately discovered. This threatened to thwart the mission of the Israelis, who were forced to engage in immediate clashes, and some of their officers were killed.
The Israeli forces suddenly stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex on the night of last Sunday and Monday, but they faced fierce resistance before they were able to control large parts of the complex and impose a siege on it and the entire area around a circle of more than one square kilometre.
Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Israeli special force “impersonated a charitable organization and entered Al-Shifa with the aim of surprising senior leaders from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements and government officials, and arresting or killing them.” However, one of the security personnel in the Hamas government became suspicious of the force when it moved in front of a small room in the Al-Shifa Complex, located behind the mortuary building. This room was used by Faiq Al-Mabhouh, the official in charge of central operations in the Gaza Strip, the official in charge of internal security, and the agency charged with following up and prosecuting agents who Israel recruits them.”
Two Palestinians during their displacement today, Monday, from northern Gaza, after the Israeli army stormed Al-Shifa Hospital (Reuters)
The sources added that the officer noticed a weapon in the possession of a member of the Special Forces, so he fired directly at it, killing a soldier and wounding three others, before wider clashes broke out, in which Al-Mabhouh killed himself.
The attack came after a meeting in which Al-Mabhouh and Mahmoud Abu Watfa, Director General of the Internal Security Forces, participated, along with other government figures, and prominent and prominent military leaders from the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, with representatives of the tribes on the issue of securing food aid.
The sources confirmed that senior leaders in Al-Qassam, including Izz al-Din al-Haddad, commander of the Gaza Brigade, and Raed Saad, one of the most prominent leaders in the armed wing of Hamas, participated in the meeting and conveyed clear threatening messages to everyone who dared to participate in the Israeli plan to manage Gaza, and informed tribal representatives that they must refuse to cooperate with the occupation and not respond to Israeli communications aimed at forming local bodies to govern the Strip. These leaders left the medical complex after the end of the meeting, in a secret manner and within the security procedures followed by the “Al-Qassam Brigades.”
The Israeli army had published a picture of dozens of detained Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists, including Raed Saad, before retracting and saying that human error was behind the publication of the picture.
Two Palestinians with destroyed buildings behind them in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis on Sunday (AFP)
The photo contained many fighters who were found to have died earlier, in addition to photos of others who were not in the medical complex.
However, senior field commanders in Al-Shifa were suspended, including the commander of the Al-Radwan Battalion in Al-Qassam (A.A.), a prominent leader responsible for several files and a member of the Military Council (R.T.), and the training official in Al-Qassam (R.A.). A.S., and (S.Q.), responsible for the monitoring file in the battalions at the sector level and deputy intelligence official there. The besieged leaders fought violent clashes with Israeli forces, and their fate was not known until the preparation of this report.
On the other hand, it was reported that Bakr Qunita, who is responsible for the file of protecting figures in the Hamas leadership and its political office, and officers from the Hamas government, were arrested, along with activists from Al-Qassam and the Al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad). Among them are battalion commanders in the “brigades”, such as the commander of the Zaytoun Brigade and the commander of two districts in the Shuja’iya neighborhood, in addition to the official responsible for the military information file in the Gaza Brigade (W.S.) and his brother Hossam, who is responsible for the intelligence information file in the brigades.
Political leaders from Islamic Jihad were in the hospital alongside the leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, including the well-known leader Khaled Al-Batsh and the leader Muhammad Hamid, but they left the complex one day before the Israeli military operation.
An Israeli soldier on Monday next to the Shifa Hospital complex (Israeli Army – Reuters)
The Israeli forces also arrested a group of liberated prisoners released in the “Gilad Shalit deal,” the soldier who was freed in exchange for more than a thousand detainees in Israeli prisons in 2011. These prisoners who were re-arrested in “Al-Shifa” are residents of the West Bank and were deported to the Gaza Strip according to the agreement. Among them is Mahmoud al-Qawasmi, whose arrest the Israeli army announced on charges of responsibility for a shooting operation during which three settlers were kidnapped in 2014, as well as Saeed Bisharat, a member of the “Political Decision Support Council” in the Hamas political office, along with the person in charge of the finance file for the Hamas office. » In the West Bank, Fawaz Nasser, and others.
The Israeli army says that it killed about 200 Palestinians and arrested about 800 others in the “Shifa” battles.
Israeli forces are still working to extend their control over the rest of the departments in Al-Shifa Hospital.
On Sunday, the Israeli army announced the resumption of military operations again in Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, and said that its forces “identified the locations of weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the hospital.”
Yesterday (Monday), the Israeli army confirmed that it launched dozens of raids in various areas of the Gaza Strip and continued its operations for the eighth day in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and for the second day in Al-Amal Hospital and its environs in Khan Yunis in the south, confirming that it had killed twenty fighters in clashes and air strikes in the area from Hundreds of residents were evacuated on Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse. The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that “the occupation forces are besieging both Al-Amal Hospital and Nasser Hospital,” which is 1.5 km away in Khan Yunis, “amid very violent shelling and heavy gunfire.”
He added, “All our crews are currently under extreme danger and cannot move at all.” The association demanded “the provision of a safe humanitarian corridor to evacuate the wounded and crews” from Al-Amal Hospital, whose gate was closed by soldiers after “the occupation forces forced them to evacuate it on Sunday evening.” She said that the crew and wounded were unable to pass “due to the extensive dredging process and the destruction of infrastructure.” She added, “Two crew members were injured when the army opened fire on them as they attempted to remove rubble from the road.”
Palestinians on the coastal road in Gaza during their displacement on Monday towards the south of the Strip following the Israeli army’s storming of the Shifa Hospital complex (Reuters)
Hamas government media said that the intense artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital and the Nasser Complex, the largest hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, and also targeted the upper floors of Al-Shifa and nearby buildings in Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses said on Monday that the army asked, via loudspeakers, the medical staff, patients, and all those taking shelter in the Al-Shifa Complex to evacuate immediately, but many said that they were “afraid of being shot or arrested if they left,” according to what was stated in the Agence France-Presse report.
Eyewitnesses in the area reported to Agence France-Presse that “dozens of citizens, including children, were detained, forced to take off their clothes, tied, assaulted and abused, and dozens of women and children were forced to flee on foot to Al-Mawasi in the south of the Gaza Strip” for a distance of no less than 30 kilometers.
Hamas’s government media said that the army “blown up with explosives more than 19 homes and residential and commercial buildings in the Al-Rimal neighborhood,” speaking of violent clashes in the area, centered in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, Tal Al-Hawa, and Al-Shati camp.
The Hamas Ministry of Health said that during the past twenty-four hours, “107 martyrs arrived at hospitals, the majority of whom were children, women and the elderly, in the occupation’s massacres and the war of extermination against defenseless civilians, and dozens of people are still missing, including children, under the rubble.” It reported that 26 people were killed and dozens injured in raids that targeted five homes in Rafah, and that 18 people were killed when the Salman family home was targeted in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
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