New information regarding Israel’s recent operation into Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital was released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday.
During its nearly weeklong operation, approximately 800 terrorists were arrested, of whom 480 have been confirmed to be members of Hamas, or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The raid also discovered a large cache of weapons and intelligence documents.
The operation resulted in the arrest of top-level terrorists, including Huasem Salama, the intelligence officer and head of the Observations Array of the Gaza Brigade, and his brother, Wissam Salama, the combat propaganda chief of the Islamic Jihad’s Gaza Division. Omar Azida, head of the Nablus Committee responsible for Hamas terrorist activity in the region; Mahmoud Kwasma, who masterminded the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in 2014; and Hamdallah Hassan Ali, who promoted terrorist activity in Judea.
Over the weekend, Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked over 65 targets in northern and central Gaza as part of their support for shifting ground forces. A terror tunnel and Hamas-controlled facilities housing terror operatives were among the targets, according to the IDF.
