The Qatari channel "Al Jazeera" announced that the Israeli army arrested its correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul from inside the Al-Shifa medical complex, which is surrounded in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. A source from Al Jazeera stated that Al-Ghoul was arrested along with five others, including the camera crew and engineers from the broadcasting service company that provides production services for Al Jazeera while they were at Al-Shifa Hospital. According to the source, "a tank destroyed the channel's broadcasting vehicle." Al Jazeera reported via its news ticker that Ismail Al-Ghoul was subjected to "severe beating" by Israeli soldiers before his arrest.