Israel Raids Gaza’s Largest Hospital, Hamas Denies It Stores Ammunition.
“People inside Al-Shifa hospital have lost contact with other buildings in the complex, the supervisor of the ER department Omar Zaqout told Al Jazeera in a phone interview on Wednesday.
Zaqout said people are sheltering inside the buildings and staying away from windows and doors.
”We have lost contact with other buildings in the hospital complex,” Zaqout said.
“We don’t know what is going on outside, all we’re hearing are explosions, gunfire, screams of older people and cries of children.”
Zaqout said that Israeli soldiers are present in buildings around the ER and that had earlier witnessed people handcuffed, stripped from their clothes and blindfolded.
CNN is not on the ground and cannot independently verify his account. CNN has also reached out to the IDF for comment on these allegations but has yet to hear back.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israel was at war “with Hamas” and not “with civilians in Gaza,” and described the raid on Al-Shifa hospital as a “precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area [of the facility]”.
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The Israel/Hamas conflict continues to rage with the World now taking sides in the war. Russia and China are backing Hamas in an effort to show American power as limited in scope. This issue among many others will be a hot topic of conversation between President Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco today. Israel is counting on backing from the United States and the West in general but patience is running paper thin with the mounting civilian casualties.
