The Israeli Military Continues Operations At Al Shifa Gaza Hospital, Ready To Move To Become Sniper Targets

IDF troops around Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza. (Source: Israel Defense Forces)

JAKARTA - Israeli forces are continuing "precision operations" at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital "to thwart terrorism", said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency known as the Shin Bet (ISA).

"So far, troops have killed more than 50 terrorists and arrested about 180 suspects," according to a joint IDF and ISA statement.

"The army eliminates terrorists in close combat and places weapons in the area while avoiding harm to civilians, medical staff and medical equipment," the statement continued.

Separately, a fifth-year medical student Ezz El-Din Lulu trapped inside Al-Shifa, called for an "intervention as soon as the hospital turned into a mass grave."

"Anyone moving in the hospital yard will be targeted by snipers," Lulu said in a video posted on her Instagram account.

"We cannot go out to treat injured victims or even move around," he said.

"Some families who left (the house) were targeted and martyred," he added.

Lulu said that the hospital ran out of food, water and electricity. "They've really cut off our relationship with everything," he said.

Separately, in a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas condemned Israeli operations in hospitals and "civil homes" in the surrounding area that killed "tens" people.

Earlier, special forces, backed by infantry and tanks, carried out "precise operations" based on intelligence, that the hospital was again used by Hamas leaders, and fired when they entered the compound, the military said on Monday, quoted by Reuters.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday voiced concern over the Israeli military attack on Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.

"Hospitals should not be a battlefield. We are deeply concerned about the situation at Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, which endangers health workers, patients and civilians," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media platform X.

According to Ghebreyesus, the hospital has recently managed to restore "minimum health services", warning of fighting there or "militaryization of the facility endangers health services, access to ambulances and life-saving supplies."