Belgium Condemned Israel for Killing Gaza Aid Worker — Now Israel Says He Was a Hamas Fighter

Israel is demanding that Belgium issue a public apology for summoning the country’s ambassador after an Israeli airstrike killed an employee of Belgium’s development agency Enabel. Belgium summoned Israel’s ambassador after Abdallah Nabhan was killed in Gaza in April 2024. “The Israeli Embassy is owed an apology!… Belgium summoned Israel’s ambassador, and international condemnation followed. New evidence now indicates that Nabhan was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade. A channel affiliated with the brigade identified him as a ‘mujahid’ and published an image of him in uniform,” Israel’s foreign ministry said in a statement on X. “Before rushing to condemn Israel, facts matter. Those who accused Israel then should acknowledge the evidence now. A public apology would be preferable, but a private one will also be accepted,” it added. The foreign ministry shared a post by Gabriel Epstein, a Senior Policy Associate at the Israel Policy Forum, where Nabhan is seen wearing a military uniform. “Earlier this week, a popular militant obituary channel focused on Hamas’ Khan Younis brigade uploaded a poster identifying Nabhan as a mujahid and showing him in uniform. This channel frequently utilizes exclusive footage and images of militants, and its obituaries are often followed by official Hamas ones within weeks,” Epstein wrote, accompanied by a photo of Nabhan from the obituary channel. “Separately, a relative identified both Abdullah and his brother Ahmed as a mujahid in a mourning post from 2025,” Epstein added. The New York Sun has reached out to Enabel for a comment on Israel’s accusation. Israel has long accused Hamas and other terror groups of masquerading as doctors, nurses, aid workers, journalists and UNRWA teachers. In recent months, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have confirmed those allegations indirectly by posting pictures and names of combatants who were reported as journalists, nurses and aid workers when they were killed in Israeli attacks throughout the war. Since the ceasefire took effect in October last year, numerous reports from local Gazans indicate that Hamas has begun using Nasser Hospital for interrogations of local Palestinians. Earlier this year, New York Sun spoke to a local Gazan who confirmed this accusation. “Hamas uses the Baptist Hospital and Nasser Hospital and Nasser Hospital to summon and interrogate merchants and company owners,” the local Gazan said, speaking to New York Sun on condition of anonymity. On January 20, Doctors Without Borders announced they would suspend all non-critical medical activities at Nasser Hospital after staff witnessed a “series of incidents.”“These included the presence of masked armed men, and others engaging in intimidation and carrying out arbitrary arrests of patients, as well as one incident that involved the suspected movement of weapons, all of which are completely unacceptable, and which we raised to the relevant authorities,” the organization said. Several former Israeli hostages have also said they were held by terror groups at hospitals throughout Gaza during their captivity, including at the Nasser Hospital. The Committee to Protect Journalists was forced to remove several names from their list of killed journalists as they also found them to have been combatants.

Belgium Condemned Israel for Killing Gaza Aid Worker — Now Israel Says He Was a Hamas Fighter

Belgium Condemned Israel for Killing Gaza Aid Worker — Now Israel Says He Was a Hamas Fighter

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