From:
https://www.rt.com/news/584220-israel-gaza-hamas-attack/
11 November 2023
11:41 GMT
The IDF has said its fighter jets and artillery struck a number of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Lebanese media reported that some projectiles landed near the coastal village of al-Zahrani, around 40km from the Israeli border,
making it the deepest IDF strike inside the neighboring country since October 7.
According to the IDF, the bombardment was carried out in response to rocket attacks from Lebanon directed at northern Israel and attempts by Hezbollah to shoot down IDF drones operating in the border area earlier on the day. The exchange of fire comes ahead of an expected address by Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, later on Saturday.
10:43 GMT
“We are minutes away from imminent death,” Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of the besieged Shifa Hospital in Gaza has told Al Jazeera.
“The hospital compound is cordoned off and the buildings of the hospital are targeted. Any moving person within the compound is targeted. The Israeli occupation forces are outside, preventing any person to move.”
The hospital has no electricity, water or internet and is lacking medical key supplies, according to the director.
“We’ve started to lose lives. Patients are dying by the minute, victims and wounded are also dying – even babies in the incubators,” he said.
09:46 GMT
Palestinian witnesses have told the AP that Israeli troops are within view of Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza. IDF troops are
“facing stiff resistance, but they are advancing,” said a man who lives in the area.
“They are here. They are visible,” another person, who is among thousands still sheltering at the hospital, told the agency. The Israeli military claims that a major Hamas command center is located under the hospital, although medics and the Palestinian armed group have denied those allegations.
The exterior of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. © AFP / Ismail Zanoun
09:23 GMT
Sarbini Abdul Murad, the chairman of Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), a volunteer group that funds the Indonesian hospital in Gaza, has told RT that claims by Israel’s military, that Hamas tunnels are located under the facility, are groundless.
“The IDF said that the Indonesian Hospital was under Hamas control, and that the hospital was designed with special tunnels, and so on. We are of course very surprised by these accusations because we (MER-C) were the ones who built the hospital. All development resources come from us, we also provide the constructors. So, the hospital has absolutely nothing to do with Hamas or anything else. So, the accusation is completely unreasonable,” Sarbini said.
The chairman pointed out that
“in the Geneva Convention it is clearly stated that hospitals, places of worship, ambulances, schools, churches, must not be damaged or disturbed [in conflict]. But for Israel, none of that matters. The important thing is that they will attack anything that is suspicious in their opinion.”
08:33 GMT
A senior Israeli official has told the Wall Street Journal that Hamas might be holding hostages underneath the Shifa hospital in Gaza, which complicates the IDF’s operations in the area. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported overnight that
“the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified.”
The Israeli military says a key Hamas command center is located underneath the hospital, although the Palestinian armed group denies those claims. A Western security official told the WSJ that there was
“no way to verify the truthfulness” of Israel’s allegations.
