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Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-1:40 p.m.
Israel-Hamas War The old and increasingly tense relationship between Biden and Netanyahu
While indirect negotiations for a truce continue under American, Qatari and Egyptian mediation, the
war between Israel and Hamas
focuses on
Khan Younis
where this Thursday Israeli soldiers broke into the
Nasser Hospital
after several weeks of fighting and attacks in that area located in the south of the
Gaza Strip
.
While the Palestinian authorities denounce a "new attack by the occupation against a health center without once again respecting the
Geneva Conventions
," the Israeli Army reported that special forces began "a precise and limited operation against Hamas terrorists."
"We have credible intelligence information from several sources, including from released hostages, indicating that Hamas held hostages at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and it is possible that there are bodies of our hostages on the premises of the Nasser Hospital," the spokesman said. Army,
Daniel Hagari
mid-morning later announcing the arrest of several suspects in an operation "to reach Hamas terrorists, including those linked to the
October 7 massacre
."
"The Israeli occupation attacks the Nasser Medical Complex and turns it into a military base after demolishing the southern wall and entering through that area," denounced Dr.
Ashraf Al-Qidra
, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip. According to him, the Army "forcibly forced the evacuation of relatives of the medical personnel who remained in the center." A day earlier, hundreds of civilians left the health complex used as their refuge in the massive military offensive launched by Israel in response to the Hamas attack on October 7. According to this spokesman for the ministry controlled by the Islamist group, 87 Palestinians died in the last day in the coastal enclave.