Correspondent in Jerusalem
In the war against Hamas, the Israeli army is not only fighting on the ground, with state-of-the-art missiles, planes and tanks. It is also a symbolic battle that is being played out and in this field, technological superiority is not everything. Al-Shifa Hospital, a vast complex in the heart of Gaza City, is a key front in this regard. Since the launch of the Israeli ground operation, al-Shifa has been presented by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) communications services as a front used by Hamas. Protected by the Geneva Conventions, it would actually have housed a vast underground command complex, where some of the 240 hostages of October 7 were hidden.
In this context, the stakes are twofold for Israel, which must prove on the one hand the cynicism of the Islamist movement and on the other hand defend its status as an "ethical" army, at war "against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza", as...
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