Former Army Minister and member of the Israeli war government, Benny Gantz, said that the ground operation in Gaza will take a long time, stressing that the fighting will not stop until “our goals” are achieved.

Gantz added that the army is operating deep in Gaza, and that there is no immunity anywhere in the Strip.

He stressed that the Israeli forces intend to reach any place with the aim of eliminating the Hamas movement, as he claimed.

He said about the head of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, that the Palestinian leader “believes that he will dismantle Israeli society, but he will lose this war.”

In a related context, an Israeli army spokesman said that the military operation carried out by his forces in Al-Shifa Hospital is taking place in one specific area, and he claimed that weapons and other infrastructure belonging to militants were found in the hospital.

The spokesman added that there was no contact with medical staff and civilians during the operation, and no fighting occurred inside the hospital, he said.

At dawn today, the occupation army forces stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza and are still there to this day. Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces arrested a number of young men from inside the hospital after they assaulted and beat them.