IDF says it has captured Hamas parliament, government seat and police HQ

The IDF on Tuesday announced that it had captured a number of Hamas governmental sites in the heart of Gaza City as its troops engaged in fierce battles with Hamas gunmen in the city, while continuing to enable humanitarian corridors to allow for civilians to evacuate to the southern part of the Strip. Among the locations captured by the troops were the Hamas parliament, the government complex, and the police headquarters. Troops also captured the so-called governor’s house in Gaza, which housed Hamas offices for its military wing and police, offices of Hamas’s intelligence division, and other sites that were used to prepare for the October 7 onslaught, the army said. Just north of the city center, the IDF’s 162nd Division completed its takeover of the coastal al-Shati refugee camp, a warren of homes and shanties home to an estimated 150,000 people who fled ahead of the Israeli offensive. The army called the neighborhood a main Hamas stronghold, and home base of a Hamas cell that took part in the October 7 massacres.