The Israeli Air Force carried out a precision strike on Sunday targeting Hamas operatives using a command and control center in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, in what was formerly El-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital.
Members of Hamas’s Aerial Defense Unit were planning and conducting imminent attacks against IDF troops from this location, the army said.
The IDF emphasized that extensive measures were taken to minimize civilian casualties during the strike. It also highlighted Hamas’s exploitation of civilian infrastructure and the local population, actions that violate international law.
At Kamal Adwan Hospital, farther north in the Strip, security forces apprehended more than 240 terrorists in a targeted operation against a Hamas command center in the medical facility, the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement on Saturday.
Fifteen among those arrested at the command center in Jabalia infiltrated Israel during the Oct. 7, 2023 invasion, the IDF and Shin Bet said.
“Despite repeated calls to refrain from allowing terrorists to exploit hospitals for military activities, IDF and Shin Bet intelligence identified that terrorists were once again using Kamal Adwan Hospital as a command center for its military operations in Jabalia,” the statement read.
