Israeli forces say they have recovered the body of a hostage near Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. The dead woman was reportedly kidnapped from the Israeli border town of Beeri on October 7 during the Hamas massacre. Her body was brought to Israel and identified.
It was previously announced that Hamas command and control centers had been found in Gaza’s largest hospital. A military representative left it unclear on Thursday what exactly this meant. Hamas denies the existence of such a base.
In addition, the Israeli Defense Forces said they had discovered information and images on the hospital’s computers and other equipment that allegedly showed hostages. The material is now being tested, it said. Weapons and intelligence material relating to the October 7 massacres were also found. Israeli special forces are said to still be deployed at the hospital.
International criticism
The armed forces have scoured individual buildings and floors for terrorist infrastructure. According to military sources, there are still hundreds of patients and employees.
The military has come under international criticism for its deployment at Shifa Hospital (see video above). Some governments have accused the country of war crimes because attacks on civilian targets such as hospitals are prohibited under international humanitarian law. However, according to international law experts, this is not necessarily the case when civilian objects are misused for military purposes.
Communication networks have failed
Meanwhile, according to Palestinian sources, communications networks in the Gaza Strip failed again due to a lack of fuel to generate electricity. So the internet connection went out. The West Bank-based company Paltel and the United Nations Palestine Relief Agency (UNRWA) had already warned of a total telecommunications blackout in recent days.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, communications networks in the closed-off coastal area have repeatedly failed. Connections with the outside world were then only possible with satellite mobile phones and sometimes from high buildings in the south of the Gaza Strip with Israeli SIM cards.
Source: Krone
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