Israel-Hamas War Israel arrests director of Gaza’s Shifa hospital, Hezbollah MP’s son killed in attack

Gaza City. Five Hezbollah fighters, including the son of a senior parliamentary leader, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. According to the group, a senior Hezbollah member was also among the dead. Meanwhile, Israel said the release of the first group of 50 hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza under a temporary ceasefire agreement would take place neither before Friday nor Thursday, as previously announced. More than 11,000 people have been killed in the war that began after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7. About 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, most of them during the initial Hamas attack.

Abbas Raad, son of a senior Hezbollah member, was killed

Five Hezbollah militants were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday evening. Abbas Raad, the son of a senior Hezbollah member, was also killed in the attack, which took place in the village of Beit Yahoun, according to the group. With the new deaths, the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed since border violence erupted now stands at 85. In a statement, the Israeli military said its warplanes attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon, and its troops and planes targeted two cells that fired at Israeli troops or attempted to launch rockets into Israel. .

Israel Hamas war: latest developments

The director of Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital and several other medical personnel have been arrested by Israel Defense Forces. The development was reported by the Times of Israel and confirmed by the hospital’s department head. According to details, the arrested individuals were being interrogated by Israeli soldiers in connection with weapons found in Hamas tunnels and the hospital. Reports said the hospital director was arrested as he headed to evacuate south of the Strip.

The Israeli military showed a group of foreign journalists what appears to be an underground bunker to prove its claim that there is a Hamas military base beneath Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. Dozens of soldiers took the journalists through a narrow stone tunnel to underground bunkers beneath Shifa Hospital. According to the army, the length of this tunnel is 150 meters. Several quarters located at the end of the tunnel have metal bunk beds in rooms with an air conditioner, kitchen, toilet and white tiles. It seems that they are not being used right now.

Israel had declared war against Hamas on October 7. It has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s hospitals as military cover. He has claimed that Hamas has built a command center under the cover of Shifa Hospital and there are many bunkers below the hospital. Hamas and the hospital administration have rejected Israel’s allegations.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, said, “Shifa is the largest hospital in Gaza and is the largest terrorist center of Hamas.” He said amid the sounds of bombardment coming from nearby, “Hamas battalion commander They are doing command and control work from here and they are firing rockets from here.” The Associated Press (AP) did not independently verify Hagari’s claims. The AP was granted access to Gaza on the condition that its journalists accompany an Israeli military convoy on a four-hour tour and hand over all material to military censors before publication. There is no other way for foreign journalists to reach Gaza.

Hamas launched an unexpected attack on Israel on October 7, in which at least 1,200 people were killed and 240 people were taken hostage. After this Israel retaliated. Health officials in the Hamas-ruled Gaza administration said more than 11,000 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli strikes. Israeli soldiers on Wednesday showed foreign journalists the weapons they said they had recovered from Shifa. These weapons include AK-47 assault rifle, 20 grenades and several drones. Hagari said these weapons are just a small sample.