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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
IDF says it hit Khan Younis hospital compound used by Hamas operatives
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The IDF says that its forces carried out a “targeted attack” on “key” Hamas operatives who were operating a command center in the Nasser Hospital compound in Khan Younis.
Palestinian media reported multiple casualties in the strike.
Among those reported killed is Hassan Eslaiah, whom the IDF and Shin Bet have previously said was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.
On October 7, Eslaiah, who was freelancing for the Associated Press, took photos of a burning tank on the Gaza border which had been attacked by Hamas operatives. He also invaded Israel with the terrorists and photographed them entering Kibbutz Nir Oz, where dozens of civilians were massacred. “During the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media,” the IDF said last month.
The IDF announced in early April that it had targeted Eslaiah in an airstrike, but he managed to survive.
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The army asserts in a statement that the Nasser compound continues to be used by Hamas operatives to plan attacks against Israel.
The IDF notes that Ismail Barhoum, a senior Hamas official, was killed in a strike on the same hospital in March.
Barhoum was a member of Hamas’s political bureau, chief of the terror group’s finances and the successor to Issam Da’alis, the de-facto prime minister of Gaza, who was also killed in March.
“Senior Hamas terrorist organization officials continue to use the hospital for terror purposes, cynically and cruelly exploiting the civilian population in and around the hospital,” the IDF statement says.
The Times of Israel Community.