On video: IDF forces in the Shifa Hospital complex, Gaza, March 18, 2024/documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
The intelligence information about the incessant flow of terrorists and Hamas commanders to the Shifa Hospital complex left no doubt in the leadership of the IDF that action must be taken that would include the arrest or elimination of terrorists on the spot. The
security establishment held several discussions on the issue due to the sensitivity surrounding hospitals in the Gaza Strip, and the criticism the International for what was created around medical facilities in the Khan Yunis area. Schedules were set, which were postponed several times due to operational matters, and finally, early in the morning, the 162nd Division went into action with a combination of special forces, armor, infantry, the Air Force, the Navy, the Shin Bet and the Army "N.
The operation of fraud and the encirclement of the compound were so successful that already in the first stage about 80 terrorists were arrested and transferred for investigation.
During the exchange of fire, one fighter was slightly injured and transferred to Israel for treatment.
Terrorists barricaded themselves in other buildings in the area, turning the medical teams and the civilians who did not have time to escape into human shields.
The renewed raid raises troubling questions.
Shifa Hospital/Reuters
Despite the accurate intelligence and the quick and creative action, several questions remain unanswered: How did terrorists manage to get to Shifa Hospital again?
Is cutting the strip into two parts not hermetic enough?
Does the fact that Hamas terrorists once again chose Shifa as their headquarters not indicate the deterrence that is eroding while the political echelon does not fully exhaust the achievements of the war?
And if this is what is happening in Shifa, what is happening in the other hospitals in the Gaza Strip that the IDF purged of terrorists? Not to mention the other sensitive facilities.
While the political echelon has been stammering in everything related to the maneuver to Rafah or the central camps for several months, and while the IDF has been ramping up forces in the Strip Gaza, and when Chief of Staff Harzi Halevi talks about "deepening the achievement", the military arm of Hamas is making an effort to restore forces and restore competence, for example in the field of rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. In addition, no one in the IDF is making a commitment that all the rocket production sites in the Gaza Strip have been completely destroyed.
Hamas has proven in recent weeks that it has launch capabilities from the areas where the IDF is located.
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The second raid on Shifa Hospital is indeed an intelligence and operational achievement, but at the same time it is also evidence that the achievements of the war are being eroded, and quickly, and require constant maintenance.
Just like in Judea and Samaria.
The question is whether the IDF is ready for this.
Division 162 raided Shifa Hospital with one-eighth of the force it entered the first time, and still, a distinction must be made between the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the concentration camps, and the southern part of the Gaza Strip where most of the terrorists fled. It is
already clear that as soon as If he leaves the area or continues to mobilize forces, Hamas terrorists will move from the south and the center to the north of the Gaza Strip to restore terrorist infrastructure.
They will take advantage of the legitimate problems that Israel has in the international arena and re-establish terrorist headquarters, and launch attacks on IDF soldiers and the Israeli rear with large combat frames.
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