© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The dad and mom of Israeli soldier Corporal Noa Marciano attend their daughter’s funeral after her stays had been recovered close to the Al Shifa Hospital through the ongoing Israeli floor operation in Gaza, in Modiin, Israel November 17, 2023. REUTERS/
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By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two overseas hostages held at a web site that has been a spotlight of its devastating six-week-old offensive.
At one level a shelter for tens of 1000’s of Palestinian battle refugees, Al Shifa Hospital has been evacuating sufferers and workers since Israeli troops swept in final week on what they known as a mission to root out hidden Hamas services.
Israel can be looking for some 240 individuals Hamas kidnapped to Gaza after an Oct. 7 cross-border assault that sparked the battle.
One in every of these was a 19-year-old Israeli military conscript, Noa Marciano, whose physique was recovered close to Shifa final week. Hamas stated she died in an Israeli air strike and issued a video that appeared to point out her corpse, unmarked apart from a head wound.
The Israeli army stated a forensic examination discovered she had sustained non-life-threatening accidents from such a strike.
“According to intelligence information – solid intelligence information – Noa was taken by Hamas terrorists inside the walls of Shifa hospital. There, she was murdered by a Hamas terrorist,” chief spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated.
He didn’t elaborate.
In his televised briefing, Hagari stated Hamas gunmen had additionally introduced a Nepalese and a Thai, amongst overseas employees seized within the Oct. 7 raid, to Shifa. He didn’t identify the 2 hostages.
CCTV video aired by Hagari appeared to point out a bunch of males frog-marching a person right into a hospital, to the shock of medical workers. A second clip confirmed an injured man on a gurney. One other man close by, in civilian garments, had an assault rifle.
Hamas didn’t instantly touch upon Hagari’s statements. The Palestinian Islamist group, which runs Gaza, has beforehand stated it took some hostages to hospitals for remedy.
Individually on Sunday, the Israeli army revealed video of what it described as a tunnel, working 55 metres in size and dug by Palestinians 10 metres below the Shifa compound.
Whereas acknowledging that it has a community of a whole lot of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and entry shafts all through the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are positioned in civilian infrastructure like hospitals.
The video confirmed a slender passage with arched concrete roofing, ending at what the army, in an announcement, described as a blast-proof door.
The assertion didn’t say what may be past the door. The tunnel had been accessed by means of a shaft found in a shed throughout the Shifa compound that contained munitions, it stated. A second video confirmed an outside shaft-opening within the compound.
Mounir El Barsh, the Gaza well being ministry director, dismissed the Israeli assertion on the tunnel as a “pure lie”.
“They have been at the hospital for eight days … and yet they haven’t found anything,” he instructed Al Jazeera tv.
