Israeli soldiers found the body of a 65-year-old Hamas hostage and the entrance to a terrorist tunnel near the struggling Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, as Gaza fell under a complete communications blackout that could delay supply deliveries and negotiations. about hostages.
Following their raid on Gaza City’s largest medical complex, the Israel Defense Forces announced that they located the body of Judith Weiss, who was abducted on October 7, inside a building near al Shifa.
Weiss, a loving mother and grandmother, was undergoing treatment for breast cancer when she was kidnapped.
She was among nearly 240 people kidnapped by Hamas last month, and her husband, Shmulik, was killed by the terrorist group when they raided the couple’s safe room at Kibbutz Be’eri.
Along with his body, the IDF said they found Kalashnikov rifles, a rocket-propelled grenade and other military equipment in the building near Al Shifa.
The IDF did not indicate how or when Weiss died.
The body of Judith Weiss, a 65-year-old Hamas hostage, was discovered on Thursday near Al Shifa Hospital. Weiss was with her husband Shmulik when Hamas raided her family’s safe room at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.
Weiss’ family was among those in Washington DC earlier this week calling on the United States to help expedite the safe return of the hostages, who include nine US citizens and one legal permanent resident of the United States.
The family was recorded singing. inside the Senate chambers alongside Chabad members and other advocates.
The discovery of Weiss’s body came as the IDF claimed to have found a shaft leading to Hamas’ 300-mile-long tunnel system inside the hospital complex, where Israel alleged the terrorist group housed a command post.
“Today, Hamas’s tunnel infrastructure was exposed inside the hospital,” the Israeli military promoted in a video showing the entrance after weeks of denials by Hamas and hospital staff.
The IDF said it found a shaft leading to Hamas terrorist tunnels in the Al Shifa Hospital complex.via IDF
The discovery of the tunnel came after a raid on Wednesday morning in Al Shifa. Hospital officials said the situation was worsening, and doctors were forced to amputate patients to save their lives when the medical center ran out of supplies, director Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiyah told Al-Jazeera on Thursday.
The doctor said the amputations were necessary to prevent the spread of infection since the injuries cannot be treated. The hospital also ran out of medicine for children suffering from diarrhea and vomiting.
The exact conditions inside the hospital remain unclear, as a “complete communications blackout” hit Gaza due to fuel shortages, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Nearby Palestine Refugees. East (UNRWA).
An IDF soldier shows weapons and military supplies found in Al Shifa.via REUTERS
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the humanitarian group, said during a conference in Geneva that until Thursday there were basically “no hospitals, no fuel, no water … no communications” in Gaza.
UNRWA said the blackout also means humanitarian groups cannot coordinate supply convoys to Gaza, including the resupply operation scheduled for Friday.
The blackout will likely hamper Hamas’s ability to contact its political leaders in Qatar, who are in talks with Israel and the United States to negotiate a deal to free 50 hostages in exchange for a three-day ceasefire and the release of women. and imprisoned Palestinian children. .
The situation is increasingly serious in Al Shifa, where garbage is piling up and doctors are forced to amputate patients to stop the spread of infections. Via REUTERS
Israel has repeatedly said there will be no ceasefire until the hostages are freed and has blamed Hamas for the dire situation in hospitals.
The White House and US intelligence have continued to support Israel’s claim that Hamas is using Al-Shifa to hide its headquarters, but have not provided specific details.
“We have our own intelligence that convinces us that Hamas was using Al-Shifa as a command and control node, and most likely also as a storage facility,” the US National Security Council spokesman told reporters on Thursday. , John Kirby.
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“We are still convinced of the solidity of that intelligence,” he added.
Israel has criticized Hamas for operating inside civilian structures, and a recent mission in northern Gaza discovered a cache of rockets stored inside a girl’s bedroom.
Video of Thursday’s developments in the city of Beit Hanoun showed military rockets lying under the bed frame of a bedroom with the sign “girl” on the wall.
“Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to cynically use Gaza children as cover for terrorist operations,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
The IDF said it had discovered similar weapons caches hidden inside Al Shifa and the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City.
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