Soldiers searching through Gaza’s Shifa Hospital have found a laptop containing videos and photographs of hostages, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday.
“Already now, after scanning some of the buildings, weapons, intelligence materials, including information related to the events of 7/10, military technologies and military equipment, headquarters, means of communication – all belonging to Hamas – have been located,” the IDF said in a statement.
“In the scans, technological means were located, including computers on which information and documentation related to the abductees was found. The finds were transferred for inspection and investigation,” the statement added. The announcement was made after the IDF allowed a BBC News crew to see part of the hospital. Inside Shifa’s MRI department, IDF Spokesperson Lt—Col Jonathan Conricus showed Kalashnikov rifles, bulletproof vests and ammunition. Conricus said other guns and grenades were found before he disclosed the laptop’s discovery. The images, he said, were taken after Hamas’s 7 October attacks. Conricus added that the laptop also had footage released by the IDF of several Hamas terrorists captured and imprisoned in Israel discussing the atrocities they participated in. The military statement said that the soldiers were moving from building to building in the Shifa complex, searching floor by floor without any harm to Shifa’s hundreds of patients, hospital staff or the Israeli soldiers.
