From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 24, 2024
IDF says more than half of the 800 suspects detained at Shifa Hospital are Hamas, Islamic Jihad members
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF’s nearly weeklong operation continues at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, with the military saying that among some 800 suspects detained by troops, 480 of them have been confirmed to be members of the Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups.
Troops also located infrastructure belonging to terror groups and caches of weapons over the past, the IDF says.
Meanwhile, Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck some 65 targets in northern and central Gaza over the past day, which the IDF says was part of support for maneuvering ground forces. The targets, according to the IDF, included an attack tunnel, buildings used by Hamas where terror operatives were gathered, and other infrastructure.
In a strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the IDF says, it targeted a site used as a staging ground where several operatives were gathered.
One building in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, which the military says was a threat to troops, was targeted by another aircraft.
In central Gaza, the IDF says troops of the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas gunmen over the past day, including with sniper fire.
Nahal troops also raided a drone manufacturing lab in central Gaza, where the IDF says soldiers killed several gunmen.
In southern Gaza, the IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade killed several gunmen with sniper fire, combat engineers destroyed a rocket launcher, and an aircraft struck infrastructure belonging to a terror group.
