Israel Says It Struck Hamas Commander Operating Inside Gaza Hospital

The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas commander inside a hospital in Gaza, leading to several killed. The IDF and Shin Bet intelligence agency said they struck Muhammad Abu Ismail, who served as the commander of Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade, “alongside additional terrorists who were hiding inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.”“In his role, Muhammad Abu Ismail was responsible for overseeing the activities of the brigade’s terrorists and directing them to advance and carry out terrorist plots against IDF troops and Israeli civilians He was also responsible for holding numerous hostages captive throughout the war,” the IDF added. The IDF specified that Hamas stored weapons inside the hospital complex, and that Hamas’ internal security and intelligence services “conducted interrogations and torture” within the hospital complex. The latter claim correlates with testimonies by local Palestinians as well as an Amnesty International report from the last large war Israel fought against Hamas in 2014. Hamas also operated “command-and-control rooms” from within the hospital complex and used “hospital facilities as observation posts and shelters for terrorists.”“Prior to and during the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance,” the military concluded. Videos from Gaza showed smoke coming out of parts of the hospital building as well as destruction inside the hospital. Hamas said six people were killed in the strike. The IDF has previously struck the Nasser Hospital, leading to widespread condemnation from NGOs. But numerous nurses, health care workers, doctors and journalists have later been found to be members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Author and researcher, Salo Aizenberg, has also unveiled how Hamas and Islamic Jihad published obituaries of militants who were previously listed as Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Nasser Hospital. On January 20, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) suspended non-critical activities at the Nasser Hospital after their colleagues “witnessed a series of incidents, including the presence of masked armed men, others engaging in intimidation and carrying out arbitrary arrests of patients, and one incident that involved the suspected movement of weapons, all of which are completely unacceptable.”MSF resumed operations at the hospital on April 13. Israel has also found numerous tunnels running underneath and adjacent to hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, the Jordanian hospital and the European Hospital. Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed in an Israeli airstrike as he was hiding in a tunnel under the European hospital. In November 2023, the European Union issued a statement condemning “the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas.”Following the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel, Amnesty International also issued a report where it stated that “Hamas forces used the abandoned areas of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including the outpatients’ clinic area, to detain, interrogate, torture and otherwise ill-treat suspects, even as other parts of the hospital continued to function as a medical centre.”

Israel Says It Struck Hamas Commander Operating Inside Gaza Hospital

Israel Says It Struck Hamas Commander Operating Inside Gaza Hospital

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