Israel Footage Of ‘Hamas Using Gaza’s Main Hospital’
By Worthy News’ George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Worthy News) – Israel’s military showed a video it said revealed hostages being taken to Gaza’s largest hospital by Hamas and a tunnel beneath the same medical facility used by “the terrorist organization.”
The footage came amid mounting international pressure on Israel to release more evidence of Hamas using civilians as human shields.
On Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared security camera footage, which it claimed was from the morning of October 7- the day Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took about 240 hostages.
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the IDF chief spokesperson, explained that the video revealed two hostages being brought into the Al-Shifa hospital
Armed men could be seen in the date-stamped video on October 7. One of the hostages appeared to be resisting, while the other was shown on a stretcher with a gunman nearby.
Hagari told media that one of the hostages was a soldier, Corporal Noa Marciano, 19, who “was killed” after being taken into al-Shifa hospital with minor injuries.
“This morning, we updated Noa’s family that according to our findings, she was kidnapped to a safe house near Shifa,” Hagari said.
IDF AIR STRIKES
“During IDF air strikes in the area, the Hamas terrorist who was holding Noa was killed, and she was wounded in the air strike, but not a life-threatening injury. Noa was taken inside Shifa hospital, where she was murdered by another Hamas terrorist.”
Hamas has previously claimed Marciano was killed in an Israeli air strike, which the IDF said occurred on November 9.
Earlier, the IDF also released footage about a tunnel 10 meters (33 feet) below ground that runs for 55 meters (180 feet) up to a closed and reinforced door.
It said this was now part of the evidence that “clearly proves” numerous buildings in the hospital’s complex were “used by Hamas as cover for terrorist infrastructure and activities.”
Hamas has denied wrongdoing. Current medical staff at Al-Shifa also denied Hamas gunmen were active in the hospital despite footage apparently showing otherwise.
It wasn’t clear whether doctors made the denials amid duress from visible gunmen between hospital patients.
And separately footage emerged that appeared to confirm Israeli allegations that Hamas fighters have been operating beneath and in Gaza’s largest hospital.
AL-SHIFA DOCTOR
France’s international broadcaster, France 24, played a recording of a British doctor who worked at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
The doctor explained that when he worked there, he was told about “a lower ward” leading to a basement off-limits to medical staff and that he would “be shot” if he entered there. He did not say his name amid security concerns.
Despite the standoff over the Al-Shifa hospital and ongoing fighting between Hamas and the IDF deep into the Gaza Strip, Qatar said “very minor” obstacles remain to other Israeli hostages being released.
Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, confirmed Sunday that the US a “significant number” could be released “in the coming days.”
Hamas tentatively agreed to the Qatari-brokered deal to release at least 50 civilian hostages, mostly women and children, if Israel meets certain conditions, including a temporary ceasefire, officials familiar with the negotiations said earlier.
It comes as the death toll on both sides rises in the ongoing Israel-Hamas armed conflict. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Sunday that some 13,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel began its campaign against Hamas after the Hamas October 7 attacks.
However, these figures have been complex to verify independently, and uncertainty remains about how many Hamas fighters were killed in Israel’s ongoing counter-offensive and air strikes that Israel says are aimed at destroying Hamas and its “terrorist infrastructure and activities.”
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