Israel kills 140 Hamas terrorists and arrests 650 more including ‘very senior commander’ in raid – as UN prepares to vote on US-proposed ‘immediate ceasefire’ resolution [Video]

04:35 EDT 22 Mar 2024 , updated 08:04 EDT 22 Mar 2024

Israeli forces have detained hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters including security officials and military commanders during its extended raid into Gaza’s main hospital, the military’s main spokesperson said. 

Israeli troops entered the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the early hours of Monday morning and have been combing through the sprawling complex, which the military says is connected to a tunnel network used as a base for Palestinian fighters.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel‘s main military spokesperson, said special forces units had used ‘deception tactics’ to surprise the fighters and had severely damaged Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Among the detainees were three senior Islamic Jihad military commanders and two Hamas officials responsible for operations in the occupied West Bank as well as other Hamas internal security officials.

‘Those who did not surrender to our forces fought against our forces and were eliminated,’ Hagari told a briefing …