2023-11-20 13:30:08
Lieutenant Colonel Idan Sharon Kettler, deputy commander of the Enemy Military Equipment Collection Unit, shows the press explosives used during the attack of October 7, 2023 and which he attributes to Hamas, on a base military personnel southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel, November 16, 2023. ADRIENNE SURPRENANT / MYOP POUR “LE MONDE”
How can we convince the world that the destruction carried out in Gaza by the Israeli army as part of its offensive against Hamas forces – and that it declares ” extend “, Monday November 20 – are fully justified due to the use that the Islamist armed group makes of civilian infrastructure, despite the videos which show the extent of the human devastation it causes? This combat is as complex in nature as those carried out by infantry and armored vehicles, in the ravaged urban environment of the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday evening, November 19, the 44th day of the war triggered by the Hamas attack on October 7, the Israeli army released new elements intended to demonstrate that the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the strip of Gaza, where its troops have been in operation for five days, constituted an operational center of Hamas. “It is important for the legitimacy of Israel, so that we understand that we need time, but also so that we know that when we target places like that, these are legitimate military objectives”, asserts Yaakov Amidror, former national security advisor.
Dates, names and “sleep” are written on a wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, November 16, 2023. ADRIENNE SURPRENANT / MYOP POUR “LE MONDE”
But, for the moment, the Israeli military hierarchy is struggling to support the thesis that Al-Shifa is one of the headquarters of the Islamist movement. Western journalists taken in army armored vehicles to two hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, expressed their questions about the meaning to be given to all the evidence presented: small arms, explosives, supposed traces of a hostage holding place, tunnel entrances. The army released a video on Sunday presented as that of a tunnel long “55 meters” dug under the hospital.
Versions divergentes
To reinforce the point, surveillance camera recordings were released Sunday evening showing two hostages – a Nepalese and a Thai who were working in kibbutzim adjacent to Gaza, according to Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari – be taken by force inside the hospital. One of them, covered in blood, is lying on a rolling bed.
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“These findings prove that the terrorist organization Hamas used Al-Shifa Hospital as a terrorist infrastructure”the army said. An accusation contested by Hamas. “The army spokesperson behaves as if he had discovered something incrediblesaid Izzat Al-Rishq, a senior member of the Islamist movement. But we have stated a long time ago that the resistance transferred prisoners to the hospital for treatment, especially after some of them were injured in the bombings of the occupying army. »
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