The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation announced on Thursday that the Israeli occupation army had arrested the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

The Broadcasting Authority quoted an unnamed Israeli source as saying that the Israeli army “arrested the director of Al-Shifa Hospital.”

The same source added: “The director of the Central and Important Hospital in the Gaza Strip was transferred for investigation by Unit 504 of Military Intelligence and the General Security Service (Shin Bet).”

The broadcasting authority did not clarify the charges that the army was bringing against the hospital director.

Earlier, the Israeli army said in a statement: “The director of Al-Shifa Hospital was arrested and transferred to investigation by the Shin Bet General Security Service after numerous testimonies were revealed about the use of the hospital he runs as a Hamas command headquarters.”

It claimed that Hamas “exploited significant resources in the hospital, including electricity, to strengthen the tunnel network, in addition to storing numerous combat means inside and around it.”