IDF says jets hit Hamas members operating command center at former hospital in Gaza City

Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck a group of Hamas members who were operating out of a former hospital in Gaza City a short while ago, the military says.

Palestinian media report at least seven dead and several others wounded in the airstrike on Al-Wafa Hospital.

According to the IDF, the operatives were part of Hamas’s air defense unit in the terror group’s Shejaiya Battalion.

“The terrorists operated in a command and control center that was established in a building that was previously used as Al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City, and is not currently an active hospital,” the military says.

The IDF says the operatives were using the command center at the former hospital to plan and carry out attacks against troops operating in Gaza “in the immediate future.”

The military says it took “numerous steps” to mitigate harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure in the strike, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.

Artillery shelling also reportedly hit the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City this morning, though there is no immediate comment from the IDF on that incident.