Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari shows pictures of Palestinians arrested inside the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza. Source: Al Jazeera Screen (Al Jazeera)
The Israeli occupation army announced that it had mistakenly published pictures of people who were arrested in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza while they were not detainees.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that the Israeli army's announcement that Al-Qassam leader Raed Saad was arrested in Al-Shifa Hospital turned out to be false.
This comes hours after a security official in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied what the Israeli army claimed about arresting a number of the movement’s leaders inside the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after storming it a few days ago.
The security official told Al Jazeera that the list of photos of detainees in Al-Shifa Hospital issued by the Israeli army spokesman is inaccurate.
The official added that a number of the pictures on the list belong to people who are currently outside Gaza, and other pictures are of martyrs, stressing that 3 of the pictures on the list belong to doctors previously released by the occupation.
He also stressed that there is no truth to what the Israeli media is publishing about the arrest of dozens of resistance leaders in Al-Shifa Hospital.
The Hamas security official told Al Jazeera that what is published in the Israeli media is inaccurate and falls within the psychological and moral war against the resistance in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army published a list of what it said belonged to senior Hamas leaders who were arrested during the ongoing operation in the Shifa complex, and that it cannot reveal their identity now.
Source: Al Jazeera