Israeli army strikes several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Detains dozens of medics in Al Shifa hospital/VIDEO

The Israel Defence Forces reports that an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanon yesterday towards the Shlomi area in northern Israel.

In response, the IDF struck the Hezbollah position from which the rocket was fired, Caliber.Az reports, citing the IDF Press Service.

Several observation points and additional launchers, a weapons depot and infrastructure facilities belonging to the Hezbollah organisation were struck.

Moreover, the Israeli military detained dozens of medical staff and Palestinians who had fled their homes for questioning during a raid on the al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The sources said the Israeli army invaded the maternity and surgical wards, the nephrology and internal medicine wards, and the emergency room. Explosions went off in the basement rooms, the sources said.

The Israeli military cracked closed doors with explosives during the searches. Dozens of medical workers and displaced persons were also detained and interrogated. Some of the detainees were taken away to an unknown destination, with their hands and eyes tied and their clothes removed, the sources said.

Snipers were reportedly stationed in the buildings of the medical complex and on the roof.

Two Turkish planes carrying oncology patients and their carers taken from Gaza and departing from Egypt's El Arish Airport landed at Ankara's Esenboga Airport.

The health of the patients was monitored throughout the journey by 9 experienced medical staff brought in from Türkiye. The 27 patients were taken to Bilkent City Hospital by ambulance to begin treatment.

Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated the radical Palestinian movement Hamas has not provided any information about the prisoners it captured in an attack on Israeli territories on 7 October, so the Israeli state has to fight for them.

"We have not received any information about our hostages. So, we will have to fight and get them," the politician said in an interview with the Financial Times.

The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel on 7 October, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country was at war.

Israel's Operation Iron Swords response was aimed at repelling the attack, freeing over 200 hostages, including foreign hostages, and destroying Hamas. In pursuit of that goal, Israel has been firing massive rockets into the Gaza Strip since the first day of the operation. At the same time, Israel's National Security Council decided to cut off the flow of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the Strip. Humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza began to be made through the Rafah crossing only after 20 October, and they have been described as insufficient.

On 27 October, Israel announced an "expansion" of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation began, but in anticipation of it, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the enclave. On 5 November, as part of the ground operation, IDF forces surrounded Gaza City and cut it off from supplies, with fighting still ongoing in central Gaza.

In addition, sources in Palestine claimed that the IDF forces entered Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital with bulldozers.

IDF forces have entered Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City through the southern entrance, for the second time, with bulldozers, the Palestinians reported on the night of November 15 to 16.

The head of the burns department in the hospital said that gunfire could be heard and that bulldozers were clearing vehicles from the entrance to allow military hardware to enter.

Besides, earlier, the IDF released evidence of Hamas weapons and military command centres inside the Al Shifa hospital complex during a raid on the medical centre.

"During searches in one of the hospital's wards, the troops located a room with technological assets, along with military and combat equipment used by the Hamas terrorist organization," the army said in a statement, adding that troops engaged and killed several Hamas terrorists inside the hospital complex.

However, Palestinian Hamas militants have denied that their weapons were hidden in al-Shifa hospital.

The militants described the footage of weapons filmed by the Israeli military at the hospital as "staging and propaganda."

"The occupation authorities' claims about the discovery of weapons and military equipment in al-Shifa hospital are lies and cheap propaganda to justify their crimes, as they did in al-Rantisi hospital, where they staged a staging by planting weapons and ammunition," the militants said."

Later, it was reported that two Turkish planes carrying oncology patients and their carers taken from Gaza and departing from Egypt's El Arish Airport landed at Ankara's Esenboga Airport.

The health of the patients was monitored throughout the journey by 9 experienced medical staff brought in from Türkiye.

The 27 patients were taken to Bilkent City Hospital by ambulance to begin treatment.