In IDF interrogation, Hamas member says gunmen operated from inside Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital

The IDF releases interrogation footage of a Hamas operative detained by troops at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, in which he says that the terror group uses the medical center as a shelter.

Over 240 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were detained by troops at Kamal Adwan during an operation there last month, according to the military.

“They [the terror operatives] think it is a safe shelter for them, because the army cannot strike it directly,” the operative, Anas Mohammad Faiz a-Sharif, says in the interrogation video.

It is unclear whether the statements were made under duress and if they represent the stances of the other detainees.

A-Sharif says the operatives would move weapons to and from the hospital, as well as set out from the medical center at night to carry out surveillance operations and patrols.

“From the hospital the grenades and mortars were given out, to attack the tanks, for ambushes, and for tunnels,” he says.

A-Sharif says he worked at Kamal Adwan as a janitor but was also a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force.

The IDF says that the operatives interrogated by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 have so far provided “a lot of intelligence information that helps the IDF in its activities in the area.”