Feb 18, 2024, 10:15 AM

Israel turns Gaza hospital into 'military base'

Israel turns Gaza hospital into 'military base'

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (MNA) – Amid the ongoing genocidal Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, the regime's forces have turned the largest functioning hospital in the coastal sliver into a "military base", according to the Gaza health ministry.

"Occupation forces detained a large number of medical staff members inside Nasser Medical Complex, which they (the forces) turned into a military base," Gaza's health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Saturday.

The troops raided the hospital, which is located in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, on Thursday, attacking hundreds of displaced Palestinians, who were seeking shelter inside the facility from the ravages of the Israeli military campaign.

The Israeli military has claimed that it was hunting for Palestinian combatants inside the hospital and had so far arrested 100 suspects.

The military has been using the claim to attack and lay siege on Gaza's hospitals ever since October 7, 2023, when it began the war against the territory in response to an operation staged by its Resistance movements.

Nearly 29,000 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and adolescents, have died so far as a result of the brutal military onslaught.

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