In a statement sent via the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, the hospital claimed that the armed men seen at the Khan Yunis medical facility were not Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives but police engaged in "protective, civilian and lawful" activities.
The IDF has called on Gaza City residents to evacuate to Khan Yunis, where a humanitarian zone has been established due to the expansion of military operations in Gaza City as part of the "Gideon's Chariots B" operation.
For the past three months, elements of the IDF's (Israel Defense Forces) Kfir Infantry Brigade have operated in southern Khan Yunis in Gaza in order to "expand and consolidate operational control in the area, eliminate terrorists, and destroy terrorist infrastructure."
Israeli forces successfully thwarted a terrorist attack on a military shelter in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on Tuesday morning, preventing what officials said could have become a major hostage situation.
According to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), troops identified the group of armed men and directed an Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike that killed them. Weapons, including AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), grenades and explosives, were recovered from their bodies.
A one-kilometer-long tunnel at a depth of about 15 meters containing Hamas weapons and explosives including explosives, Kalashnikov weapons and RPG missiles was located in the Khan Yunis area in the Gaza Strip by Israel forces in Gaza and was partially destroyed.
Stretching approximately 15 km, the corridor runs between eastern and western Khan Yunis and is intended to increase pressure on Hamas' Khan Yunis Brigade.
In recent weeks, the forces of the IDF's (Israel Defence Forces) 188th Armoured Brigade's Combat Team and Yahalom (Diamond) Combat Engineers Special Forces Unit completed an operation to locate, explore and destroy an underground Hamas terror tunnel in the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaz
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Tuesday claimed that it has killed Iran's senior-most military official and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's closest military advisor, Ali Shadmani, in an air force strike in Tehran.
The IDF has said that it is examining claims according to which, during a strike yesterday in Khan Yunis nine of ten children as well as the husband of Alaa al-Najjar, a Palestinian doctor in Gaza where killed.
The Israel Defense Forces has ordered residents of Khan Yunis and its suburbs to evacuate ahead of what it calls an "unprecedented attack" targeting Hamas in southern Gaza.