Israeli forces capture several Hamas government buildings in Gaza City
THE Israel Defence Forces on Tuesday announced that troops of the 7th Armored Brigade and Golani Infantry Brigade have captured several Hamas governmental buildings in the Gaza City neighborhoods of Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal.
Among the sites captured by the troops are the Hamas parliament, its government complex, and the police headquarters.
It says troops captured the so-called governor’s house in Gaza, which housed Hamas offices for its military wing and police, offices of Hamas’s intelligence division, and other sites that were used to prepare for the October 7 onslaught.
The IDF says it also captured a Gazan university’s engineering faculty building, which “served as an institute for the production and development of weapons,” and another Hamas compound with a training base, command center, interrogation rooms, and detention cells.
Pictures leaked on social media earlier showed Golani soldiers inside the Gaza parliament building and military police headquarters.
179 buried in mass grave in Al-Shifa Hospital: Director
The Director of Gaza’s largest hospital -- Al Shifa Hospital -- on Tuesday said that at least 179 people have been buried in a mass grave inside the hospital premises, media reports said.
“We were forced to bury them in a mass grave,” said the Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya, adding that seven babies and 29 intensive care patients are among those buried, Al Jazeera reported.
Orthopoedic surgeon Fadel Naim, based in Gaza, said that the patients with injuries “up to the moderate level” have to undergo surgery without anaesthesia because of a lack of medical supplies.
“It’s to preserve the remaining supply of anesthesia, which is on the verge of depletion at any moment, for major and critical surgeries,” he wrote on X.
Al Jazeera reported that the pain experienced by patients during surgical interventions without anesthesia is beyond what humanity can endure.
According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza since October 7 -- equivalent to two nuclear bombs.
Satellite imagery and photographs show entire neighbourhoods have been levelled, with many hospitals, schools, places of worship and homes damaged or destroyed by Israeli land, sea and air attacks. Entire communication systems and water treatment plants have also been disabled, Al Jazeera reported.
