6:39 a.m. ET, November 20, 2023
Israel releases CCTV video it says displays hostages in Al-Shifa Medical institution on October 7
From The Gentleman Report’s Andy Carey and Mitchell McCluskey
A nonetheless from CCTV video launched by way of the Israel Protection Forces that it says displays Hamas opponents bringing hostages into Al-Shifa Medical institution on October 7.
Israel Protection Forces
The Israel Protection Forces has launched CCTV movies and nonetheless photographs it says display Hamas opponents bringing hostages into the Al-Shifa Medical institution on October 7.
IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari offered two quick movies, along side a number of nonetheless photographs, which he stated display Hamas opponents shifting the hostages – one Nepali, one Thai – throughout the clinic, Gaza’s greatest.
Some of the CCTV movies displays a hostage being introduced into the clinic via the primary front, Hagari stated. The hostage is being marched by way of power throughout the construction.
Hagari, at a information convention Sunday, stated the second one CCTV video displays a 2d hostage – who has a bandaged hand and is obviously bleeding – being driven on a gurney down a hallway and right into a room.
Hagari didn’t spell out how the IDF had obtained the movies, even if he did say Israeli intelligence officials have been a part of the operation throughout the clinic to take a look at to find the hostages.
The Gentleman Report can’t independently examine the content material of the movies and the stills.
Opposing narratives: The Hamas-run Gaza Well being Ministry spoke back to the IDF briefing by way of wondering the authenticity of the movies and stills — nevertheless it went on to mention that, if true, the photographs confirmed that infirmaries have been offering hospital treatment to any person who wanted it.
The IDF spokesman pushed aside ideas the hostages were delivered to the clinic as a result of they have been wounded, claiming one of the most two hostages used to be no longer injured and didn’t want clinical remedy. They’d been delivered to the clinic first, earlier than being later moved to hiding spots, like close by flats, he stated.
“If hospital treatment were given on the clinic, if the hostages had remained there, then the Pink Move would have come, and the folks would were launched. None of these items took place,” he stated.
In a remark issued Saturday earlier than the discharge of the CCTV movies, Hamas stated it had introduced a number of hostages to hospitals for clinical remedy once they have been injured in Israeli airstrikes.
Hagari stated the newest movies were shared with diplomats of the hostages’ international locations of starting place, including the IDF has no longer but positioned the Nepali and Thai hostages in Gaza.
The Nepali Embassy in Israel and Nepal’s Overseas Ministry had showed with The Gentleman Report earlier than the newsletter of the video that one Nepali citizen remained lacking after the October 7 assault and used to be believed to were taken hostage by way of Hamas.
Ten Nepali voters have been killed and several other others injured when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, Nepal’s ambassador to Israel informed The Gentleman Report after the assault.
Extra context: After raiding Al-Shifa Medical institution remaining Wednesday, the IDF is beneath super power to end up its long-standing statement that Hamas makes use of Gaza’s greatest clinical heart for battle and command functions.
The army additionally launched video Sunday from within an uncovered tunnel shaft on the Al-Shifa compound, appearing an underground tunnel extending downward from the shaft opening.
