Hamas Internal Security Chief Killed During IDF Raid On Shifa Hospital
More proof of Hamas use of hospitals for terror activities. IDF: “Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at the Shifa hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity.”
Since 2014 we have covered Hamas embedded itself inside, around, and under Shifa Hospital complex, comprising many buildings, in Gaza city.
- Hamas hides in, under and around Gaza’s main hospital, and the media covers it up (Video)
- IDF: Hamas Uses Al-Shifa Hospital as Main Terror Base (October 27, 2023)
- Captured Hamas Terrorists Admit Hoarding Weapons and Explosives in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Other Medical Facilities (November 9, 2023)
- Videos: Inside The Hamas Shifa Hospital Underground Command Center (November 22, 2023)
Even after Israel cleared the hospital complex of Hamas, Hamas returned and started using the hospital again, leading to an Israeli raid last night. The intitial reports were that a “Senior” Hamas official was the target, but until this morning, his identity was not released:
🔴IDF troops are currently conducting a precise operation in the area of Shifa hospital—based on intelligence information indicating the use of the hospital by senior Hamas terrorists to conduct and promote terrorist activity.
Watch IDF Spokeperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari describe… pic.twitter.com/jKdUdNpY91
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 18, 2024
The Al-Shifa Medical Complex stands surrounded by the IDF right now. There appears to be a major operation ongoing and civilians are evacuating the area. It looks like the IDF has intel of some HVT's presence inside the complex. #Gaza pic.twitter.com/hF0raHiZRa
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) March 18, 2024
🚨BREAKING | AL SHIFA HOSPITAL – LIVE COVERAGE.
Heavy gunfire around the complex.
Scenes from the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after it was stormed a few hours ago
Dozens of martyrs and injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/mBKbXUCOIp
— Suppressed Voice. (@SuppressedNws) March 18, 2024
There was speculation that it must be a very senior person for the IDF to throw as many resources into the raid as it did.
Whoever the Hamas Leader inside the Hospital is must be Extremely Important if the IDF is throwing this many Assets at the Complex.
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 18, 2024
Today the IDF revealed the identity of the target, Faiq Habhoud, the head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas’ Internal Security:
🔴 Eliminated: Faiq Mabhouh, head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas' Internal Security.
Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at the Shifa hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity. pic.twitter.com/KFbGto2soE
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 18, 2024
The hostpital complex was infested with terrorists, with fierce firefights from within, leading to many dead Hamas terrorists:
Last night the @IDF conducted a precise operation in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, based on intelligence indicating senior Hamas terrorists were using the hospital to conduct terrorist attacks.
Here is video footage of terrorists firing from a number of buildings in Shifa. pic.twitter.com/mSvaFhP8ah
— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) March 18, 2024
IDF is operating in Shifa Hospital; more than 80 were arrested, and many Hamas terrorists were killed. Intel, in the past few weeks, has been indicating that Hamas, with help from the Hamas health ministry (yes…the same one that publishes the numbers on death Gazns) are… pic.twitter.com/mfW3f6crFP
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) March 18, 2024
IDF spokesman in Arabic calls on all residents of the Rimal area and the area around Shifa Hospital to leave due to the ongoing fighting there, and move south. pic.twitter.com/Y8gRak9mjB
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) March 18, 2024
Are we supposed to believe the hospital officials did not know?
Right by the office of the director of the Shifa Hospital: a designated room for Hamas terrorists to operate from, with weapons and terror funds intended for distribution.
This is more evidence of Hamas' systematic abuse of hospitals for its terrorist activities. pic.twitter.com/rzzMKkwONz— COGAT (@cogatonline) March 18, 2024
This guy came from a terror family.
Faiq Mabhouch, whom the #IDF killed today at Shifa Hospital, is the brother of senior #Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouch (pictured here) who was killed in a hotel in #Dubai in 2010 by an unknown group of "tennis players". pic.twitter.com/ETZV4kq4hf
— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) March 18, 2024
Of course, the W.H.O. is blaming Israel:
Hospitals should never be battlegrounds. We are terribly worried about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza, which is endangering health workers, patients and civilians.
The hospital has only recently restored minimal health services. Any hostilities or…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 18, 2024
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He was the security chief? And he got killed?
I guess he didn’t do a very good job providing security.
It took a major raid, and it sounds like a pitched battle, to kill him. That would indicate he was doing a very good job at it. And it means it’s not as if he’d simply moved into the hospital and was living in one of the rooms; he had put significant forces there and turned it (once again) into a working military base. A military base that also treats patients doesn’t thereby become a “hospital” with the accompanying protected status.
Only wish the battles had happened earlier when Israeli casualties could have been less. Pericles wrote that it is better to fight a war sooner than have a worse war later…. still holds today.
“A military base that also treats patients doesn’t thereby become a “hospital” with the accompanying protected status.”
Good point Milhouse. Along the same lines:
A military base that also teaches students doesn’t thereby become a “school” with the accompanying protected status.
A military base that also holds worship services doesn’t thereby become a “mosque” with the accompanying protected status.
Hamas has a lot to learn!
No, Hamas has already learned this lesson well. It is the fatuous Western elites, the anti-semites, the media, and the likes of Biden and Blinken who have a lot to learn. Hamas (and Iran) plays them like a fiddle.
What they haven’t learned is that that trick doesn’t work no more.
I heard he was sharpening a great big spike to impale his enemies on. He should have realized it was Purim.
What I don’t understand is why they were able to move back in, why wasn’t the network of tunnels boobytrapped?
I don’t think they’re in the tunnels. They’re in the buildings.
The question remains: How did he get back into northern Gaza.
I would surmise it’s because the Israelis left way too many living terrorists (in the guise of ‘civilians’) there when they went through.
Drive them ALL out and make it a wasteland until you’re certain all of the terrorists are dead and gone.
The poor job wasn’t the defense of his offices in the hospital. The “poor job” for a security chief were the lapses in his own opsec that allowed the IDF to learn his location in the first place.
Some people would call that irony, but I prefer “divine justice” myself.
Another one bites the dust.
Hamas is yelling that what Israel did is a war crime. Of course, Hamas ignores the fact that using hospitals for military purposes is the original war crime. WHO BTW is another one of the many useless agencies of the useless UN.
Using medical facilities for military purposes is not only a war crime it also removes the immunity that facility might have enjoyed from military action. Israel has every right to do what they did. No doubt about that.
Yep. After giving due notice, that is. Which Israel gave.
Way to go, IDF. Finish the job! Godspeed.
Chuck Schumer is deeply offended by these developments.
Is there any chance of trading some Dems for innocent hostages?
They tried – hamass said no – already have enough terrorists!!
We could disguise his house as a Hamas headquarters and let the IDF know so they could launch a few rockets in his direction. Might work.
Hamas leadership dying in and around hospitals is much akin to Civil War battles being fought on current parkland.
BOOM town!
Schumer is going to be angry. LOL
Schumer LOVES him some Ham-Ass. Support for Ham-Ass is support for the murder of Jews.
Poor Fake Moo-bee-doo-be-doo. He is now pushing up daisies. Like his brother, Moo-bee-Mah-bee-hoochie, fewer leaders to plan the murder of Jews.
May he rest in pieces.
Good riddance! One less terrorist on Planet Earth!
https://www.jns.org/hamas-no-3-marwan-issa-wounded-or-killed-in-israeli-strike-report/ The only good Hamas chieftain is a dead Hamas chieftain
“Hospitals should never be battlegrounds. We are terribly worried about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza, which is endangering health workers, patients and civilians.”
Tedros says what? That man needs to take several seats and shut up. Actually, I’m all for a direct missile attack of the WHO.
Every statement he makes just makes me MORE determined to get the US out of the UN and the UN OUT of the US!! All those funds could be used to help AMERICANS! AND if enough people pull out they’ll have to lay off a bunch of the “elite leaders” and the lower ranked rapists!
This event illustrates that no quarter can be given to Hamas terrorists and their ilk: dead Palis can’t come back and infest previously secured areas again.
Antony Blinken is directly responsible for Israeli casualties at this point … changing Rules of Engagement after the battle has already been joined
Outrageous
It is so collosally outrageous, and unethical
He is blatantly violating his own cherished “Rules Based Order”
Blinken seems like a guy who was always getting sand kicked in his face. From boyhood until today — everywhere he goes, to every country that he visits…… surely he senses the complete lack of respect that he commands everywhere he goes.
But in Israel — in Israel alone!!! — he makes demands that no country in history could ever possibly live up to.
And it makes him feel manly
He’s like the no-account husband who is treated by everybody like the mediocrity that he is — and then he comes home and takes it out on his wife and kids, because they rely on him for survival
What a punk
What an absolute punk.
No, he is not directly responsible. He can demand whatever he likes, but he can’t make Israel do anything. It’s the Israeli government that has chosen to accept some (though not most) of his demands, so it is responsible for the consequences.
Mil – you don’t think that the Israelis are going an EXTRA mile to keep “civilian” deaths to a minimum at the expense of their own soldiers? Blinken, Biden, and BLUNDER have almost come right out in defense of hamass and “eluded” to “holding Israel responsible” for collateral damages!
They are, and that is entirely on them. Nobody can make them.
Sand monkey go boom!
In other news Tucker is seen crying like a little girl because one of his children died.
In a hospital?!
Say it isn’t so!
/puts away shocked face/
I have a SOLUTION to the TWO big situations we face! Hamass and Ukraine! Why not just round up all the Gazans and “emigrate” them to Ukraine? Not sure how many BILLION$ that would take, but would be money well spent! That would free the area of present and FUTURE terrorists and provide Ukraine with a NEW ARMY!!
Who says there’s no good news?
I’m trying to remember:
After WWII didn’t the Americans remain in Japan? For a while
After WWII didn’t the Soviets and French and Brits and Americans remain in Germany for a few weeks? Oops I meant years
After the American Civil War didn’t the Federal army remain in the former confederacy? For a few days ooops I meant over a decade
After the French and Indian War didn’t the French have to leave North America for a while? Oops I meant for forever
And on and on and on and on — the historical precedents are endless
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But Israel is expected to behave differently after this war? Iffff they’re able to win this war??
It’s so crazy
I guess the world is so accustomed to Jews getting slaughtered, the world seems to just accept it as nothing particularly unusual r upsetting
So, they unplugged this guy’s ventilator?