In a video statement from Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says troops have detained between 250 and 300 terror operatives at the medical center during the ongoing operation against Hamas there.
He says another 300 suspects are also being questioned.
“We are talking about many [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] operatives, including battalion commanders, Hamas operatives, including political officials,” Hagari says.
“We will reach all the terrorists in this area. Our goal is to arrest the senior officials alive and bring them in for interrogation. Whoever fights against us will be killed,” he says.
Hagari says the IDF is providing food and water to the civilians sheltering at the hospital, and brought in generators for Shifa’s ER.
He says the operation will likely last several more days.
The IDF also releases a video showing weapons recovered by troops at Shifa, and clips of the elite Duvdevan commando unit operating on the hospital’s premises.
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