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2024-03-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF: Hamas, PIJ commanders among 650 picked up in ongoing Shifa hospital fight in Gaza
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[IsraelTimes] Top PIJ operatives also captured in ongoing raid at Strip’s largest medical complex; military releases drone footage of Hamas gunman waiting to ambush troops in Khan Younis
Troops have captured some 650 terror suspects, including several "very significant" senior Hamas
 ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
commanders, during an ongoing operation at Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
City’s Shifa Hospital, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Thursday, as talks continued in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to secure an extended truce and hostage deal.
According to the IDF, at least 358 of the detainees were confirmed to be members of terror groups.
The IDF said that Islamic Jihad operatives holed up at the medical center surrendered to troops, including Hussam Salameh, the commander of PIJ’s observation and intelligence unit in Gaza City, and his brother, Wissam Salameh, head of the terror group’s propaganda unit in Gaza City.
In an evening presser, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari detailed additional senior PIJ operatives who were captured by troops at Shifa, including the commander of the terror group’s Shejaiya Battalion, the deputy commander of PIJ’s Northern Gaza Brigade, and a PIJ commander charged with the terror group’s tunnels in northern Gaza.
Also captured at Shifa were three senior officers in Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters, which is tasked with advancing attacks against Israel from the West Bank, the army said.
The Shin Bet named them as Amr Asida, the head of the Nablus unit; Mahmoud Qawasmeh, one of the planners of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; and Hamdallah Hassan Ali, who was also involved in directing recent attacks in the West Bank.
Hagari said there were additional "very significant" senior Hamas commanders who were captured by troops at Shifa, but that their identities could not immediately be disclosed due to their ongoing interrogations.
He added that there was still a group of terror operatives holed up at Shifa’s emergency room, and the IDF was working to evacuate civilians from the area first before battling them.
The Shifa operation, now in its fourth day, began as Israel sent a delegation to Doha for negotiations of a truce and the release of 134 hostages held in Gaza — not all of them alive — since Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Thursday after assessing the Shifa operation that it was "very important for pressuring Hamas, it’s very important for pressuring the negotiations."
On Tuesday, Qatar-based Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
charged that the operation had revealed an "endeavor to undermine ongoing negotiations in Doha."
Hamas accused Israel of killing "dozens of displaced people, patients and medical staff" during the raid at Shifa, though on Wednesday IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said that "until now, no civilians, doctors, medical teams — none have been hurt."
The detained terror suspects were taken to Israel for further interrogation by the Shin Bet.
According to the IDF, troops have so far killed more than 140 button men in the raid, which began early Monday and is being carried out by the 401st Armored Brigade, the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, and other forces.
During scans of the hospital, the only partially working medical facility in the north of the Strip, the IDF said soldiers seized weapons and intelligence documents "that contribute to the continued fighting."
The fighting at Shifa was ongoing and expected to last several more days until all terror operatives in the area were captured or killed, according to military officials.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday hailed the ongoing raid, which he said "surprised the terrorists."
"Nobody expected us to do what we did. There was an assault on a location that half a year ago took us a month to reach; now we did it in a flash," Gallant said to soldiers of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, adding that terror operatives still holed up at the hospital "are considering their future: surrender or death."
In southern Gaza, meanwhile, the IDF on Thursday released footage captured by a drone showing a Hamas gunman waiting to ambush troops inside a building in the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, in an operation that was wrapped up earlier this week.
The gunman, after being spotted, was killed by troops of the elite Egoz commando unit, the IDF said.
Israel says it puts no limit on humanitarian aid for Gaza and blames slow aid delivery on a lack of capacity or inefficiency among UN agencies. An Israel official told The Times of Israel that some 200 aid trucks were expected to enter Gaza on Thursday, in addition to 77 aid packages airdropped by Jordan. On Wednesday night, 15 trucks filled with aid successfully made their way from the southern Gaza Strip to the north, where it has been more difficult to get food.
Tedros said the WHO was particularly concerned about the military operations inside and around the Shifa Hospital complex.
“A planned mission to Al Shifa today had to be canceled due to lack of security… Once again, we call for healthcare to be protected and not militarized.”
International law states that the use of a healthcare facility by an armed party for belligerent acts in a conflict makes that site a legitimate military target. 
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