Pictures of Israeli hostages discovered on laptops in hospital: IDF

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By Snejana Farberov

Pictures and movies displaying a few of the 200 Israeli hostages kidnapped to Gaza have been found on laptops throughout a raid of Al Shifa hospital, the Israel Protection Forces mentioned.

The photographs had been taken after the hostages had been whisked off to Gaza following the lethal Oct. 7 assault on Israel by Hamas terrorists, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, the IDF spokesman for overseas media, instructed BBC Information reporters who accompanied Israeli troopers inside Al Shifa Wednesday.

“We uncovered loads of computer systems and different gear which might actually make clear the present state of affairs, hopefully relating to hostages as nicely,” Conricus mentioned.

The laptops had been additionally allegedly discovered to include footage, just lately launched by Israeli police, of their interrogations of captured Hamas terrorists.

The BBC mentioned it was not proven the contents of the laptops — and claimed its journalists had been barred from speaking to hospital sufferers or docs throughout their “tightly managed” go to.

Conricus did present the correspondents a stockpile of Kalashnikov assault rifles, ammunition and bulletproof vests contained in the hospital’s MRI unit,

In complete, raiding Israeli forces have seized about 15 firearms, in addition to grenades, the IDF rep mentioned.

Additionally discovered inside Gaza’s major hospital had been army booklets in Arabic printed by Hamas’ army wing — and a map Conricus mentioned was marked with potential entry and exit routes to and from the besieged medical middle, the place a whole lot of sufferers and employees have discovered themselves trapped.

Conricus advised that Hamas fighters had been at Al Shifa “inside the previous few days.”

The IDF spokesman mentioned that each one this goes to point out that Hamas conceals its command facilities beneath Gaza’s hospitals to keep away from airstrikes.

Israeli troops raided Al Shifa early Wednesday, going room to room contained in the medical complicated in the hunt for terrorists, weapons and different proof proving that Hamas had been utilizing the hospital as its headquarters.

Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned there was no water, meals, or child milk in Al Shifa, which was crowded with 650 sufferers and seven,000 folks displaced by weeks of airstrikes.

Medics have beforehand mentioned dozens of sufferers, together with three untimely infants, had died within the hospital resulting from lack of energy and fundamental provides.

Israel has maintained that Hamas was working a headquarters in a posh of tunnels below the hospital — a declare that was backed by President Biden.

“You will have a circumstance the place the primary struggle crime is being dedicated by Hamas by having their headquarters, their army, hidden below a hospital,” Biden mentioned Wednesday. “And that’s a truth.”

However greater than 24 hours after taking management of Al Shifa, the Israeli military had but to furnish proof of the existence of a subterranean Hamas command submit.

Israeli commandos continued combing via the hospital buildings Thursday.

“The operation is formed by our understanding that there’s well-hidden terrorist infrastructure within the complicated,” an iDF official mentioned.

Hamas has denied working at Al Shifa and accused Israel of planting the weapons proven to BBC to justify treating the hospital as a army goal.

With Put up wires