Israel seizes several government headquarters in the Gaza Strip and claims that Hamas "no longer controls the city"

Every hour that the siege on Gaza City passes, it tightens more. Israel's ground offensive advances and clashes between soldiers and members of the Islamist organization Hamas occur street by street. This Tuesday the Israeli Army reported the capture of multiple military and government buildings; including “the headquarters of the Hamas legislative assembly and government,” from where the soldiers themselves have shared photographs posing with Israeli flags. The videos released by the troops show a city destroyed by bombing where most services are at minimum levels.. The UN warned this Tuesday of the critical humanitarian situation: there is only one hospital left in operation in the entire north of the Strip.

“The combined combat forces of the Seventh Brigade controlled the headquarters of the Hamas legislative assembly and government, the police headquarters and an engineering college used for the production and development of weapons,” the military spokesperson confirmed.. For days now, the Army has been sharing images that supposedly show how the buildings taken have been used as training, control, detention and interrogation centers. In addition, they have also confirmed that the Shati refugee camp is under “operational control” of Israel, where they have managed to locate 160 tunnels and some 2,800 infrastructures.

Another Israeli brigade took over the governor's residence this Tuesday, which would have been identified “as a facility used by the terrorist organization Hamas.”. The building housed both Hamas' military and police offices as well as the organization's military intelligence offices, headquarters and several outposts, according to Tel Aviv.. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Hamas “no longer controls Gaza City”. “There is no Hamas force capable of stopping the Israel Defense Forces. “The IDF is advancing on all fronts,” he said.

Israel denounces that hospital centers are being used to house “Hamas terrorists”, which would justify, they argue, their being attacked. The spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari, has assured from the same Rantisi hospital that he has found “evidence that the terrorists returned from the massacre of October 7 to this hospital.”. “In the basement, we found a Hamas command center, with suicide bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, anti-tank rocket launchers and other weapons, computers and money. “We also found signs indicating that Hamas held hostages there,” he added.

At the moment Hamas denies the use of these facilities and international organizations ask that the hospitals not be bombed.. Doctors Without Borders has reported shots fired this Tuesday “against one of the three facilities located near the Al Shifa hospital”, which houses medical personnel and their families, including 65 children.. The staff of the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, began digging a mass grave inside the facilities this Tuesday to bury those who die, since the siege does not allow them to leave the center.. In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent has warned that the medical team at Al Quds hospital, also under siege, remains “trapped” in the facilities.

At this time, only the Al Ahli hospital operates in the entire north of the Strip, where it is estimated that there are half a thousand patients. “All hospitals in Gaza City and the northern Strip are out of service due to lack of electricity, medical supplies, oxygen, food and water, in addition to shelling and clashes in the surrounding area,” he said. affirmed the UN Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office.

A second group of Spaniards leaves Gaza

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are in the south of the Strip after having fled the north. Although the attacks in the south are minor, Israeli bombings also occur there every day. From this region, Palestinians with dual nationality try to leave through the Rafah crossing. This Tuesday a second group of 74 Hispanic-Palestinians was able to enter Egypt, joining the 40 who left the Strip on Monday. A total of about 200 people are expected to leave, including their families.

One of the Spanish women who managed to enter Egypt this Monday was Salsabeel Hamdan, who acknowledged to EFE that “the exit has been very difficult.”. “It was complicated for the Spanish consulate and for us. In fact, some families could not even reach Rafah,” said this 28-year-old girl.. Salsabeel's life has taken a turn and now he will have to remake it in Spain. “We will go to my brothers' house in Valencia. Let's hope that the war is over and that we can make a new life, even if it is here or there, and that way we could finish our studies,” he said.

The Spanish-Palestinians who left the previous day are already in Cairo, where they will wait for the rest to arrive to fly to Spanish territory.. At the moment the date on which they will be able to do so is unknown.. Meanwhile, the war in Gaza continues to kill dozens of people every day. Israel's fighting and bombing in response to the Hamas attack on October 7 – which left 1,400 dead and more than 240 hostages – has killed more than 11,300 people and left 29,200 injured, according to figures from the Gaza Government. , in the hands of Hamas.