Footage shows IDF destroyed Turkish hospital in central Gaza; COGAT says site was used by Hamas

The Israeli military demolished the so-called Turkish hospital in the central Gaza Strip, footage circulating on social media shows.

When the IDF was previously deployed to the Netzarim Corridor of central Gaza, it used the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital as a base of operations, according to a report by the Washington Post.

Last year, the IDF published that it had uncovered a Hamas tunnel network that passed under the hospital.

The military does not immediately comment on the destruction of the hospital, but the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) confirms the IDF worked to “dismantle” Hamas infrastructure there.

“Another hospital can be added to the list — in recent months, Hamas terrorists exploited a site in northern Gaza which previously served as the ‘Turkish’ hospital as a command and control center, from which they directed and carried out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israel,” COGAT says.

“The IDF operated in response to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” it adds.