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Thursday, March 21, 2024
IDF spokesman says ‘very significant’ Hamas commanders among those detained at Shifa
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says there are additional “very significant” senior Hamas commanders who were captured by troops at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
He does not detail their identities due to their ongoing interrogations.
Hagari in a press conference does detail some additional senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives who were captured by troops at Shifa, including the commander of PIJ’s Shejaiya Battalion, the deputy commander of PIJ’s Northern Gaza Brigade, and the PIJ commander charged with the terror group’s tunnels in northern Gaza.
He says there is still a group of terror operatives holed up in Shifa’s emergency room, and the IDF is working to evacuate civilians from the area first before battling them.
