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IDF doesn’t ‘intentionally goal hospitals’, says former Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz

By Editorial Board Published June 19, 2025 3 Min Read
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IDF doesn’t ‘intentionally goal hospitals’, says former Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz

In an interview with Yalda Hakim, Benny Gantz – who give up Benjamin Netanyahu’s warfare cupboard final yr – additionally mentioned he has “nothing against” the folks of Iran or Gaza.

The World Well being Group (WHO) has mentioned not less than 94% of all hospitals within the Gaza Strip have been broken or destroyed.

A complete of 917 healthcare employees in medical services have been killed, the WHO mentioned final month.

Requested concerning the figures, and if the Israeli army intentionally targets healthcare buildings, Mr Gantz replied: “This is absolutely not true.”

He mentioned that when the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) focused al Shifa hospital in Gaza earlier within the warfare, it “did everything in our capacity to ensure nobody was getting hurt”.

Mr Gantz continued: “Those hospitals are a coverage, they are being used by Hamas to put all their infrastructure under those hospitals, underneath those schools.

“We alert them and evacuate it, then we do what now we have to do. We don’t intentionally go and hit a hospital simply because it is a hospital. There is not any manner we’re doing it.”

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The Israelis’ army motion in Gaza started after Hamas’s assaults on 7 October 2023.

Israel final week began launching airstrikes on targets in Iran as tensions between the international locations escalated.

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Describing himself as a “man of peace”, Mr Gantz mentioned: “I have nothing against the people of Iran as much as I don’t have anything against the people of Gaza.

“I do hope that in the future they’ll stay with one thing they’ll stay with and we will stay beside.

“Until then, we must continue to operate to free our hostages, to make sure that Hamas is not threatening anyone and we can move forward.”

He mentioned of Israel’s army motion: “Yes we are fighting for own security [..] but aren’t we serving strategically the region? Aren’t we serving strategically the global society?”

His feedback got here after an Israeli airstrike on a camp in north Gaza killed a complete of 19 folks on Thursday, in accordance with the director of al Shifa hospital.

A Palestinian woman mourns over the body of her child killed in an Israeli military strike at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City AP

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A Palestinian lady mourns over the physique of her baby at al Shifa hospital. Pic: AP

They included three kids and 5 ladies, Mohamed Abu Selmiyah mentioned.

For the reason that warfare started in October 2023, a complete of 55,706 folks have been killed, Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry has mentioned. It doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its rely.

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