Speaking to troops at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital on Friday, the chief of the IDF Southern Command says the operation there against Hamas will end “only when the last of the terrorists are in our hands, dead or alive.”
“The action here at Shifa is significant. A bold, cunning, most impressive operation so far,” Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman says.
The IDF says it has captured more than 800 terror suspects, including several senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders, and killed another 140 gunmen during the ongoing raid at the Strip’s largest medical center.
Finkelman was joined by the chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the commander of the 162nd Division, Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen, and the commander of the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, Cpt. “Aleph.
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