The Israel Defense Forces have reached the outskirts of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israel believes Hamas’s main headquarters to be located, officials in the terror group reported on Friday morning.According to Palestinian reports, heavy fighting was occurring around the perimeter of the hospital, as well as near Al-Rantisi Hospital, also in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The reports said that special forces were operating in the area and that armored forces were closing in.
The head of the Hamas-run media office in Gaza, Salama Maarouf, told Al Jazeera that strikes were carried out near three hospitals in total, but gave no casualty figures.
However, according to AFP, a government statement claimed that there were “thirteen martyrs and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on Al-Shifa compound today,” and hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiya alleged that “Israeli tanks fired on Al-Shifa hospital.” READ MORE