The Bottom Line
- It is the 41st day of the war between Israel and Hamas.
- On Wednesday, Hamas announced a new death toll of 11,500 in Gaza.
- The Israeli military claimed to have found Hamas "weapons and military equipment" in the Al-Shifa hospital. Hamas immediately denied this. The operation continues on Thursday.
- Emmanuel Macron condemned "in the strongest terms" the bombing of civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
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Hamas says IDF deployed bulldozers in Al-Shifa
The Hamas administration's health ministry in the Gaza Strip said Thursday that the Israeli army had deployed bulldozers at al-Shifa hospital, which it said was suspected of serving as a military site for the Palestinian Islamist movement.
"Israeli bulldozers destroyed parts of the southern entrance" to the hospital, the ministry said in a brief statement in Arabic.
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Israel continues its operation in Al-Shifa
The Israeli army continued its operation in Gaza's main hospital on Thursday. "Tonight we are carrying out a targeted operation in al-Shifa hospital. We continue to move forward," Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman said late Wednesday night on the army's Telegram channel.
The Israeli army confirmed early Thursday to AFP that its "soldiers" were still deployed in this hospital, the largest in Gaza where, according to the UN, about 2300,<> people (patients, caregivers, displaced people) are being held.
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