On Monday, Israel Defense Forces soldiers assaulted Al-Jazeera Arabic reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul as he reported on a new Israeli offensive on the hospital, and then took Al-Ghoul and other journalists to an undisclosed location, according to Al-Jazeera, and multiple news reports.
The reports said that Israeli forces raided the hospital at dawn, detaining at least 80 people overall. The IDF said it has taken control of Al-Shifa hospital, calling the action an operation to “thwart terrorist activity” following “concrete intelligence” that “senior Hamas terrorists” had “regrouped” inside the hospital.
Thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war have sought shelter in the hospital complex.
The IDF Spokesperson said that the forces were specially trained and briefed to operate in the hospital area without harming patients or staff. The IDF Spokesperson also informed the hospital director via phone that the IDF would be operating in the area.
After an operation of five hours, one soldier was killed and another lightly wounded, while 80 terror suspects were arrested and others were eliminated in combat with the IDF.
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