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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Gaza hospital chief tells Shin Bet that his medical center was taken over by Hamas, housed a hostage
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The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabaliya reveals in a Shin Bet interrogation that his northern Gaza hospital was turned into a military facility under Hamas’s control and that at one point it housed a kidnapped soldier.
In footage published on Tuesday by the Shin Bet and IDF, hospital director Ahmed Kahlot tells Israeli forces that Hamas had offices inside the hospital and used it as a base for operational activity.
According to Kahlot, who himself has been a lieutenant colonel in Hamas since 2010, some 16 members of the hospital’s staff – including doctors, nurses and paramedics – are also Hamas operatives who serve in the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the terror organization.
He adds that several members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades are also employed in the hospital.
The Times of Israel Community.