The director of a Palestinian hospital within the northern Gaza Strip informed Israeli officers that Hamas typically turns its medical services into terrorist headquarters, verifying expenses by the Israeli Defense Forces.
The director, Ahmad Kahalot, was taken into custody on Dec. 12 on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya. During questioning, he acknowledged being recruited into Hamas in 2010 with the rank of brigadier basic. He mentioned greater than a dozen different medical personnel there, together with medical doctors and nurses, are additionally affiliated with Hamas, Israeli officers mentioned Tuesday on their Telegram social media web page.
Mr. Kahalot mentioned Hamas makes use of hospitals within the Palestinian enclave to cover its fighters towards detection by Israel.
“For them, a hospital is a safe place. They won’t be targeted when they are inside a hospital,” he mentioned. “There are offices where the Hamas leader and two of the other senior officials were. There’s a place for the interrogators, internal security and special security. All of them have private telephone lines inside the hospital.”
An Israeli soldier captured in the course of the Oct. 7 rampage the place Hamas killed no less than 1,200 folks was held on the hospital.
Also, IDF troopers had been shuttled round Gaza in a personal ambulance that Hamas wouldn’t enable for use for wounded sufferers.
“I begged him to take someone to the Indonesian Hospital (or) to Shifa (Hospital), but he refused. His mission is too important,” Mr. Kahalot mentioned. “The leaders of Hamas are cowards. They left us in the field while they hide in secret places. They have destroyed us.”
