Doctors Without Borders Admit That Gaza Terrorists Dominate Local Hospitals

Global health group Doctors Without Frontiers is suspending activities at a Gaza hospital, admitting one of the Strip’s worst-kept secrets: Health facilities are doubling as Hamas headquarters. The group, known in French as Medecens Sans Frontieres, says it has significantly reduced its activities in a large Gaza health facility, Nasser Hospital at Khan Yunis. The reason: “Patients and staff reported seeing armed, masked men roaming parts of the building,” MSF said, according to an Associated Press dispatch on Thursday. Hamas and other terrorist organizations have long used Gaza hospitals to hatch attacks, store weapons, and set up communication centers. Released Israeli hostages testified that they had been held captive in health facilities, including Nasser Hospital, which has long been known to intelligence officials as the hub of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigades.The Fourth Geneva Convention determines that health facilities must be protected from military attacks — unless they are used to commit “acts harmful to the enemy.” According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a hospital “loses immunity if it is actively integrated into military operations.”Yet press reports, international organizations, and Western governments have long ignored Hamas activity in Gaza hospitals, accusing the Israel Defense Forces of committing war crimes when targeting terrorists hiding there. On Thursday the United Kingdom’s United Nations mission led 53 countries in issuing a statement of demands for Israel to increase aid to Gaza. The statement included a call on the Israelis to “ensure the protection of healthcare workers, healthcare facilities, and medical transport in accordance with international humanitarian law.” Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, noted that no similar demand was made of Israel’s enemies. “To the UK and all the countries expressing concern over the situation in Gaza ahead of winter,” he wrote on X, “point your fingers in the right direction: Hamas.”Israelis say the same one-sided accusations against Israel’s conduct in Gaza also dominate news reports. “An Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital kills 6 people, including a doctor and a child,” AP reported on Wednesday.The target of the post-midnight strike at Nasser Hospital, though, were not physicians or children. Instead, the IDF and Shin Bet identified the presence at the hospital of the commander of the terror group’s Khan Younis Brigade, Muhammad Abu Ismail, and several of his lieutenants. Abu Ismail reportedly was critically injured in the bombing, and he is unlikely to survive, Maariv reported Friday. Other reports said he was dead. The IDF has long sought the Khan Yunis commander, knowing Abu Ismail had used the maternity ward on the third floor of the Nasser Hospital as headquarters.Abu Ismail personally oversaw the imprisonment of nearly a dozen Israeli hostages at Nasser Hospital, including an American, Omer Neutra, who had been killed in captivity. Under Israeli pressure, Abu Ismail left the hospital three weeks ago, but returned on Wednesday, when the IDF struck.The Israeli attack led to a chorus of condemnations and demands that Israel cease targeting health facilities. The Doctors Without Borders’ announcement, though, exposed the health care crisis’ real culprits: Hamas and other armed terrorists. The MSF suspension of most health services at the Khan Yunis facility was disclosed on Thursday, though it had likely been phased out months ago. According to the announcement, the Nasser Hospital’s medical staff are exposed to “serious” threats from armed men located at the facility.“MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons,” the group said in a statement.

Doctors Without Borders Admit That Gaza Terrorists Dominate Local Hospitals

Doctors Without Borders Admit That Gaza Terrorists Dominate Local Hospitals

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