IDF Spokesperson's statement in English
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During a briefing to the international media, the IDF Spokesperson revealed intelligence that Hamas' main terrorist headquarters is located beneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In a special briefing to the international media, the IDF Spokesperson revealed a great deal of information proving that Hamas routinely and in emergencies uses humanitarian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for its terrorist activity, while exploiting the humanitarian shelter to protect its terrorists and the heads of the terrorist organization.
Shifa Hospital has a number of underground compounds used by the heads of the Hamas terrorist organization to direct its activities and a tunnel that reaches the hospital, allowing entry to Hamas headquarters other than through the hospital.
IDF Reveals to the World: The City of Terror Under Gaza Hospital/IDF Spokesperson
IDF Reveals to the World: The City of Terror Under Gaza Hospital/IDF Spokesperson
According to the report, the hospital has 1,500 beds and 4,000 staff members who serve as human shields for Hamas leaders. The entrance to the underground headquarters is made from a number of tunnel shafts adjacent to the hospital, and there is also an entrance from the hospital's hospitalization and treatment departments.
IDF Reveals to the World: The City of Terror Under Gaza Hospital/IDF Spokesperson
The hospital's energy infrastructure, which is supposed to serve its patients, serves the organization's underground terrorist infrastructure and the organization's leaders at the same time. At the same time, the report says, Hamas still controls Gaza's existing energy resources and chooses to channel them for its own needs at the expense of the needs of the civilian population.
The IDF Spokesperson said that the information on Hamas' use of the hospital was based on a very wide range of intelligence and Shin Bet intelligence sources. All the information, most of which was not disclosed by the IDF Spokesperson, was passed on to our intelligence partners around the world.
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