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Kamal Adwan Hospital

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
April 30, 2026, 8:30 pm
Rats infest Gaza’s tent camps, biting children and spreading disease
IDF kills Hamas operative allegedly planning attacks on troops, three reported dead in separate airstrike; Israeli NGO petitions for release of Gazan doctors held without charges
By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025 (Democracy Now screenshot/Youtube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)
February 1, 2026, 2:21 am
Resurfaced photo shows detained Gaza hospital director wearing Hamas uniform
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is a colonel in Hamas’s Military Medical Services; he has been in Israeli custody since December 2024, but not accused of specific acts of terror
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025 (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube)
February 12, 2025, 5:51 pm
Lawyers for detained Gaza hospital chief claim he was abused in Israeli custody
Kamal Adwan hospital director beaten with ‘batons and electric shock sticks’ while detained at Sde Teiman, alleges Palestinian rights group; IDF doesn’t immediately respond
By Charlie Summers
Hamas operative Anas Mohammad Faiz a-Sharif in an interrogation video released by the IDF on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 7, 2025, 5:22 pm
Hamas member tells IDF interrogators that gunmen operated in Kamal Adwan Hospital
Operative says terrorists saw north Gaza hospital as ‘safe shelter,’ used it as armory; unclear whether statements were made under duress, and whether other detainees agree
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Screen grab of a video released by the military apparently shows terror operatives fleeing during an ambush in Jabalia on December 30, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
December 30, 2024, 4:02 pm
IDF says ‘many dozens’ of terror operatives killed in overnight north Gaza ambushes
WHO demands Israel release detained director of Beit Lahiya hospital, who IDF says is suspected of ties to Hamas, after 240 operatives arrested in raid on medical center
By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff
Suspected Palestinian terror operatives are detained by troops near northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a handout photo issued by the military on December 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 29, 2024, 10:58 pm
IDF: 19 terrorists, no known civilians, killed in Gaza hospital raid; Hamas said 50 dead
Israel says 240 suspects arrested at Kamal Adwan — including its director and 15 participants in Oct. 7 onslaught; 700 civilians evacuated; IDF nears end of Jabalia operation
By Emanuel Fabian
Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, killed in the northern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 29, 2024, 9:01 pm
Soldier killed in northern Gaza as five rockets fired into Israel
Fighter jets hit rocket launchers amid resurgent fire from Strip; fourth baby dies of hypothermia in Gaza tent city; IDF says it killed six Oct. 7 perpetrators last month
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
December 28, 2024, 8:56 pm
IDF completes raid on north Gaza hospital, says some 240 terror suspects arrested
Military says facility was a ‘key stronghold’ for Hamas, detains hospital’s director, Oct. 7 terrorists; also says it evacuated hundreds of patients to other hospitals
By Emanuel Fabian
The Kamal Adwan hospital stands in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2024. (AFP)
December 28, 2024, 8:31 am
Israel denies Hamas claims that troops set fire to north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
Military says ‘small fire in an empty building’ was unrelated to its activity; Arab states rush to condemn operations; post appears to deny Hamas claim that hospital chief detained
By ToI Staff and Agencies
People protest for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the home of Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 23, 2024, 6:14 pm
Israel still hasn’t received list of living hostages from Hamas, official says
Israeli official tells ToI gaps are narrowing in talks with terror group, but crucial issues — including length of ceasefire, Palestinian prisoners to be freed — still unresolved
By Lazar Berman and Agencies
Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Jabalia, in a handout photo published by the military on December 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 6, 2024, 10:05 pm
IDF says it killed Hamas officers involved in Oct. 7 glider infiltration, massacres
Military denies reports it struck, stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, after 29 said killed and dozens injured at one of north Gaza’s last functioning hospitals
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
In coordination with the IDF, ambulances transfer patients and caregivers from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to other locations in the Palestinian enclave November 23, 2024. (IDF)
November 24, 2024, 7:42 pm
During offensive, IDF transfers patients from north Gaza hospital to safer areas
17 patients, carers transferred from Kamal Adwan Hospital where IDF says Hamas active; hospital chief said hurt in air strike; military instructs residents of Shejaiya to evacuate
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
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