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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
After Jenin raid, Halevi vows IDF won’t let hospitals ‘become shelter for terror’
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Following the raid last night on a hospital in Jenin, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi says Israel is not seeking to fight in medical centers, but will go after terrorists wherever they are hiding.
“We do not want to turn medical centers into battlefields… but we are much more determined not to allow hospitals in Gaza, Judea and Samaria [West Bank] or Lebanon — neither above ground or in shafts and tunnels under hospitals — to become a shelter for terror,” he tells a group of reserve soldiers, according to a statement from the military.
Halevi adds that Israeli forces will “also enter the most complex areas possible to eliminate terror.”
“We will continue to operate in Gaza, will continue to reach anywhere where Hamas is,” the military chief says.
The Times of Israel Community.