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Good evening

Today I will be revealing intelligence proving that Hamas uses hospitals as terror infrastructure. I repeat that Hamas uses hospitals as terror infrastructures. Hamas turns hospitals into command and control centers, and hideouts for Hamas terrorists and commanders.

Additionally, I can confirm that according to the intelligence we have in our hands there is fuel in hospitals in Gaza. I repeat, there is fuel in hospitals in Gaza. And Hamas is using it for its terror infrastructures. The information I will share here today has also been shared with the members of the intelligence community. We have given them all the materials and more than you will see here, and they have all accepted it. Together with further classified materials that show more concrete evidence, both relating to hospitals being used as terror infrastructures and the status of fuel.

I want to start with Shifa Hospital. Located in Gaza City, the biggest hospital in Gaza. This is the Shifa Hospital, you can see where it is located in Gaza City. The largest hospital in Gaza. It has over 1,500 beds, 4,000 staff, and now it also has more people around the surroundings of the hospital.

The red marks that you’ve seen before and that you will see later are red marks of buildings that are involved with Hamas and we know it, and we have proof that they are all involved with Hamas. Hamas is cynically using hospitals and as a shield for its underground terror complex. I want to explain. There are underground metro tunnels in Gaza City, not just in Gaza City, usually it's based next to, next to unique sites, or sensitive sites, not just the hospital, but other sites like mosques, etc. UNRWA places, hospitals, schools, etc. this is a philosophy of Hamas. And Shifa is one of them.

The red buildings, as I mentioned, are buildings that Hamas is using. Meaning, he does its command and control in different departments of the hospital like the RENTGEN (MRI) room and others. He uses these places in order to do command and control for terror activities, launching rockets, etc.

It is here in Shifa Hospital where Hamas operates some of its command and control cells, this is where they direct rocket attacks, command Hamas forces, Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa Hospital, and other hospitals in Gaza with terror tunnels. Hamas also has an entrance to those terror tunnels from inside the hospital wards. Meaning, from different places in the hospital you can go into an underground tunnel that will provide you shelter. We’ll show it now on a map.

This is an illustration of Shifa Hospital and the underground facilities. I want to repeat, this is only an illustration. We will not share here the true material that we have in our hands. This is only an illustration. Right now, terrorists move freely in Shifa Hospital, and other hospitals in Gaza. We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7th.

Hamas uses Shifa Hospital as a shield for Hamas terror infrastructure. Hamas wages war from hospitals. By operating from these hospitals, Hamas not only endangers the lives of Israeli civilians, but also exploits innocent Gazan civilians as human shields. Shifa is not the only hospital, it is one of many, Hamas’ use of hospitals is systematic. Hamas terrorists operate inside hospitals precisely because they know the IDF distinguishes between terrorists and civilians. Israel targets terrorists, Hamas targets Israeli civilians and Gazan civilians. As we have shown in the al-Mahdi incident, in the Hospital of Al Mahdi.

Hamas is stealing from Gazan civilians to fuel its attack. We already exposed that Hamas stole fuel from UNRWA and UNRWA confirmed it, and as I said, there is fuel, there is fuel in hospitals in Gaza and Hamas is using it for its terror infrastructure. Here is proof that Hamas has fuel in Gaza and uses it for its terror infrastructure, this is a recording, please listen.

You saw the last sentence, I think the last sentence, this is how Hamas sees the Gazan. He uses the destruction, the death in Gaza, that occurred because they use them as human shields, in order to show the world and use propaganda against Israel. Here is another proof that Hamas is running its terror infrastructure from inside and under hospitals in Gaza, please listen.

We also have other recordings and videos we will share with you later, and we will share more materials, classified materials, with members of the intelligence community. When medical facilities are used for terror purposes, they are liable to lose their protection from attack in accordance with international law. The IDF will continue making efforts to minimize harm to civilian populations and continue to act in accordance with international law. For over two weeks the IDF has called and continues to call on civilians of northern Gaza and Gaza City to temporarily move for their own safety, to move south to Wadi Gaza. We are continuing to assist the efforts led by Egypt and the United States to provide a humanitarian effort in this area that will have food, water and medicine for the people of Gaza. We will increase this humanitarian effort. I would like to answer your questions if you have.