Several people were reported injured on Wednesday evening when a Houthi drone struck a tourist center in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
” Over 20 people were wounded by shrapnel on Wednesday after a drone from Yemen exploded in Eilat, days after another Houthi smashed into a hotel in the Red Sea resort city,” The Times of Israel reported. “Medics reported that among the injured were two men ages 60 and 26 listed in serious condition, along with a 30-year-old who was moderately hurt and 19 others with light wounds.”
The drone fired from Yemen “struck the tourist district near the “Mall Hayam” shopping center,” the Israel Hayom reported
The newspaper added:
The Israeli Air Force said attempts were made to intercept the drone before it fell in the city’s tourism district. Security officials are investigating how the aircraft evaded Israel’s multilayered air defense systems and exploded in such a crowded area.
The Israeli military was at the scene to assist the rescue work “IDF troops, alongside the Israel Police, were dispatched to the area of Eilat after receiving a report of a UAV attack,” the military said in a statement.
“The troops are assisting in evacuating civilians from the area and providing initial medical care,” the IDF added.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Wednesday, released the footage of Hamas terrorists firing at Israeli troops from within the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. “A few days ago, significant live fire was identified as being conducted out from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City,” the IDF said in a statement.
The 900-bed hospital has served as a Hamas commander center and an underground dungeon for holding hostages after the October 7 attack. The continued use of Shifa and other Gaza hospitals is a deliberate Hamas strategy to maximize civilian casualties.
“The use of a civilian structure, and particularly an active hospital, is further proof of Hamas’ cynical and systematic modus operandi of exploiting civilian infrastructure as manned terror command posts,” the IDF statement added. “By doing so, Hamas knowingly endangers the lives of patients, medical staff and innocent civilians in the Strip.” The IDF has set up humanitarian areas away from the combat zone and is facilitating the evacuation of Gaza residents despite Hamas’s efforts to block them from fleeing the city.
Since the war began in the wake of the October 7 massacre, Palestinian terror groups have used Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza as bases for sheltering terrorists and hoarding weaponry. The Gaza-based terrorist organizations, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have been “using Shifa as a command and control center and military headquarters,” the IDF disclosed in April 2024.
In November 2023, the IDF raided the Shifa Hospital, discovering that some of the hostages had been held in the terror tunnel below the facility. Hamas terrorists had booby trapped the tunnel’s blast doors, hoping to kill Israeli soldiers who would come in search of the hostages.
In March 2024, Israeli troops again entered the Hamas-infested hospital in a surprise operation, eliminating over 200 terrorists and capturing 500 others in a two-week-long close-quarters combat.
The Jerusalem Post reported the latest IDF revelations, recalling Hamas’s previous use of Shifa Hospital for its terrorist activities:
The IDF identified terrorists firing from Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a few days ago, the military stated on Wednesday, publishing aerial footage of the incident along with the statement. (…)In using the hospital in this way, Hamas is intentionally putting at risk the lives of civilians, including hospital patients and staff, the military added. (…)The footage comes as the latest evidence of terrorist exploitation of Shifa Hospital, something Israel has warned over the course of the war.In a June interview with N12 news, former hostage Emily Damari said she was taken to Shifa Hospital after being kidnapped on October 7, 2023.Earlier in January 2024, the IDF uncovered a 250-meter-long tunnel system underneath the hospital.Shifa Hospital’s director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, was initially arrested in November 2023 for allegedly allowing Hamas to use the hospital as a terror base.The IDF later affirmed the allegation during its operation at the facility the following April, during which it killed some 200 terrorists and arrested hundreds more.
With the IDF ground operation to capture Gaza City entering its second week, Israeli troops are destroying Hamas terror infrastructure above and below the ground. Nahal Brigade, the IDF’s main infantry formation, is playing a key role in degrading Hamas’s terrorist capabilities in the city.
“Troops from the Nahal Brigade are operating in Gaza City and continue to strike terrorist infrastructure sites that pose a threat to IDF troops,” the military said in a press release on Wednesday. “During their activity, the troops encountered a terrorist and engaged in close-quarters combat, the terrorist was eliminated.”
Israeli “troops located numerous weapons, including firearms, magazines, body armor and IDF uniforms,” the military revealed. They “dismantled an active terrorist compound from which a rocket was launched toward IDF troops.”
Several people were reported injured on Wednesday evening when a Houthi drone struck a tourist center in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
” Over 20 people were wounded by shrapnel on Wednesday after a drone from Yemen exploded in Eilat, days after another Houthi smashed into a hotel in the Red Sea resort city,” The Times of Israel reported. “Medics reported that among the injured were two men ages 60 and 26 listed in serious condition, along with a 30-year-old who was moderately hurt and 19 others with light wounds.”
The Israeli military was at the scene to assist the rescue work “IDF troops, alongside the Israel Police, were dispatched to the area of Eilat after receiving a report of a UAV attack,” the military said in a statement.
The troops are assisting in evacuating civilians from the area and providing initial medical care,” the IDF added.
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