The Israel Defense Forces said it had captured a number of Hamas administrative buildings in the Gaza Strip, which the IDF said were being used by Palestinian militants for military purposes.
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According to an IDF press release, the 7th Armored Brigade Combat Team and members of the Golan Infantry Brigade conducted raids in the Sheikh Ejlin and Rimal neighborhoods in Gaza. During these raids, Hamas’s “parliament” building, its government complex and police headquarters were seized.
Israeli troops also took control of the “governor’s house” in Gaza, which housed the offices of Hamas’s military and police wing, the offices of the militants’ intelligence unit and other facilities that Israel believes were used to prepare the October 7 attack.
In addition, the IDF seized the Gaza University engineering building, which served as a “weapons production and development institute,” as well as a complex that housed Hamas training facilities, operations headquarters, interrogation facilities, and detention facilities. Weapons and militant training materials were found at the facility, the report said.
IDF evidence that corpses from the abandoned 7th Brigade and the Golan infante brigade were to be used by several Hamás governmental buildings in Gaza City neighborhoods Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal.
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The night before, a number of Israeli publications, including the Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post, published a photo of Golani brigade soldiers with Israeli flags taken in the Gaza parliament building. Since 2007, since the militants seized power in the enclave, representatives of the legislative branch of the Hamas movement have been sitting there.
The complete encirclement of Gaza City, located in the north of the enclave, was announced by Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari on November 2. Since then, the Israeli military has been waging urban battles and striking Hamas targets.
Earlier, the IDF showed Hamas underground premises under a children’s hospital in Gaza. Weapons were stored there and, possibly, hostages were kept.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) press office has released a video that allegedly shows the basement of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza, where a Hamas weapons cache was located. The video, filmed by the IDF, was published by The Times of Israel.
Hamas is hiding in hospitals. Today we will show it to the whole world,” the publication quotes IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari as saying.
The footage shows underground passages underneath the clinic, as well as a cache of ammunition and weapons such as AK-47s, explosive devices and RPGs.
Hagari, who visited Rantis, demonstrated a motorcycle with traces of balls, which was probably used to take hostages to the Gaza Strip on October 7. He then showed several premises where women and children taken from Israel could be kept.
On the street next to the hospital, the Israeli military also found a secret entrance to an underground tunnel. It is, according to Hagari, located near the home of one of Hamas’s “high-ranking terrorists”, led by the group’s naval special forces unit.
Daniel Hagari added that on November 13, forensic teams were sent to Rantis to find out whether hostages were actually held in the clinic’s basements.
The IDF has previously accused Hamas militants of using hospitals and other civilian sites in Gaza to hide their military infrastructure. The IDF also stated that terrorists treat civilians as human shields. Hamas denies that its fighters are hiding under hospitals.
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