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Hamas member tells IDF interrogators that gunmen operated in Kamal Adwan Hospital

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07.01.2025

The IDF released on Tuesday interrogation footage of a Hamas operative detained by troops at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, in which he says that the terror group uses the medical center as a shelter.

Over 240 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were detained by troops at Kamal Adwan during an operation there last month, according to the military.

“They [the terror operatives] think it is a safe shelter for them, because the army cannot strike it directly,” the operative, Anas Mohammad Faiz a-Sharif, said in the interrogation video.

It is unclear whether the statements were made under duress and if they represent the stances of the other detainees.

A-Sharif said the operatives would move weapons to and from the hospital, as well as set out from the medical center at night to carry out surveillance operations and patrols.

“From the hospital the grenades and mortars were given out, to attack the tanks, for ambushes, and for tunnels,” he said.

A-Sharif said he worked at Kamal Adwan as a janitor but was also a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force.

The IDF said that the operatives interrogated by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 have so far provided “a lot of intelligence information that helps the IDF in its activities in the area.

The IDF’s recent raid on Kamal Adwan, which began in late December and lasted a few days, saw the arrest of over 240 members of........

© The Times of Israel


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