Israeli intel indicates Hamas held hostages at new Gaza hospital as UN health agency criticized for inaction

TEL AVIV, Israel - With the archetypal 3 Israeli hostages freed successful the cease-fire for hostages deal, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned that respective terrorists captured by Israeli forces past period confessed that Israeli captives were held astatine antithetic times astatine the Kamal Adwan Hospital successful bluish Gaza.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) precocious completed a large raid connected the hospital, arresting immoderate 240 terrorists. The manager of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, the Israelis claim, had gathered quality showing that helium not lone allowed Hamas to infiltrate the hospital, but actively collaborated with the panic group.

Another captured terrorist, Anas Muhammad Faiz al-Sharif, who worked astatine the infirmary arsenic a cleaning supervisor and joined the Nukhba forces of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades successful 2021, told Israeli interrogators that the bluish Gaza installation was viewed arsenic "a harmless haven for them due to the fact that the [Israeli] subject cannot straight people it."

He revealed that wrong the hospital, terrorists distributed grenades and mortars, on with instrumentality for ambushing IDF troops and tanks.

UN ACCUSED OF DOWNPLAYING HAMAS TERRORISTS’ USE OF GAZA HOSPITALS AS NEW REPORT IGNORES IMPORTANT DETAILS

IDF troops located weapons, classified documents, and tactical communications instrumentality from the Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Gaza, utilized by Hamas arsenic a panic bid center. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Fox News Digital asked a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson if, based connected the IDF's caller allegations astir holding hostages astatine Adwan Hospital, they would condemn Hamas' usage of hospitals for subject use. 

In a statement, the spokesperson said, "The International Humanitarian Law is precise clear. Healthcare workers and healthcare facilities are disconnected limits. They indispensable not beryllium attacked. They indispensable not beryllium utilized for subject purposes. They indispensable beryllium protected astatine each times. The constituent is some to support civilians, arsenic good arsenic to support the wellness systems and infrastructure that communities beryllium connected for life-giving attraction and continuity of services. 

"Failure to support and respect healthcare devastates twice. First, successful the archetypal harm, and past again for the months oregon years it takes to rebuild the wellness systems."

The connection concluded without condemning oregon singling retired Hamas. "The extortion of healthcare besides includes the prohibition against combatants utilizing wellness facilities for subject purposes. IHL is besides wide that adjacent if healthcare facilities are being utilized for subject purposes, determination are stringent conditions which use to taking enactment against them, including a work to pass and to hold aft informing and adjacent then, disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited."

Richard Goldberg, a elder advisor astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and erstwhile Trump National Security Council official, claimed, "Several planetary organizations operating successful Gaza apt had nonstop cognition of Hamas utilizing hospitals arsenic panic office and lone publically protested Israel’s effort to wide the terrorists. The Red Cross, UNRWA, World Health Organization - they were each collaborators."

Ambulances carrying patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Beit Lahya, bluish Gaza Strip since services stopped wrong 24 hours owed to deficiency of fuel, get astatine Shifa Hospital, accompanied by UN teams, successful Gaza City, Gaza, connected Oct. 12, 2024. (Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Goldberg offered proposal for President Trump's prime for U.N. ambassador, Elise Stefanik, who goes earlier the Senate connected Tuesday. "Stefanik would beryllium afloat justified successful launching investigations into each of those agencies - demanding documents and unit interviews. And if they don’t comply, they tin woody with the consequences."

One of Trump's archetypal acts connected Monday was to retreat the U.S. from the WHO. 

During the monthslong IDF cognition successful bluish Gaza, much than 700 terrorists were detained, including Hamas commanders, immoderate of whom participated successful the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre successful confederate Israel. More than a twelve of those captured were progressive successful kidnapping oregon holding Israeli hostages successful Gaza.

During the operation, the IDF located and destroyed thousands of weapons, including RPGs stashed wrong the infirmary itself. The purpose of the run was to wholly decision Hamas's Northern Brigade and region the panic group's beingness from wrong the civilian population. IDF troops conducted raids ranging from a fewer hours up to a afloat day. During the longer ones, they entered the infirmary and searched for weapons and terrorists.

Former Shin Bet cause Gonen Ben Itzhak, who was the handler of erstwhile Hamas informant Mosab Hassan Yousef, the lad of a Hamas founder, told Fox News Digital that, "Using ocular intelligence, it’s casual to spot erstwhile Hamas brings guns and ammunition into the infirmary … and adjacent with 1 quality source, you tin get intel connected what is happening inside. From a awesome constituent of view, the terrorists usage phones and walkie-talkies, which tin beryllium intercepted."

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SILENT OVER HAMAS’ USE OF GAZA HOSPITAL AS TERROR HQ 

The IDF shows weapons seized during an ongoing cognition to wide terrorists from Al-Shifa Hospital successful Gaza. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Almost nary warring took spot wrong the hospital, from which immoderate 950 radical were yet evacuated, each earlier the IDF's last raid. Since then, the Israeli subject has facilitated and secured the transportation of the hospital's operations to the adjacent Indonesian Hospital, astatine the petition of the Palestinians.

Even arsenic the United Nations and the planetary assemblage condemned Jerusalem for its anti-terrorism run astatine Kamal Adwan, a erstwhile Palestinian Authority official, told Fox News Digital that Hamas’ usage of hospitals was "immoral" and known to endanger patients and wellness workers.

Adnan al-Damiri precocious went viral connected societal media aft the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch enactment flagged his Facebook station showing that Hamas had summoned a Gazan newsman for questioning to Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis successful the confederate Strip.

Photo showing weapons recovered wrong and astir Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Gaza by IDF troops. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

"I made this station to amusement Palestinians that Hamas is doing everything against the radical of Gaza, including successful hospitals. Hamas claims its conflict is against the [Israeli] occupation, but the information is they usage our people," al-Damiri said. He noted that the papers posted to societal media was sent to him by a person of the Gazan who was summoned for interrogation.

"I cognize that it’s a existent document. I americium not acrophobic of Hamas," helium added.

CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS GETTING CLOSER AMID CONCERNS TERROR GROUP REARMING IN GAZA

In December 2023, Ahmed Kahlout, then-director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told his Israeli interrogators that helium and different unit were Hamas operatives. Kahlout described however Hamas utilized ambulances to fell operatives, transport violent squads and present a kidnapped IDF soldier.

Basem Naim, a subordinate of Hamas' governmental bureau successful Gaza, told Fox News Digital that his "resistance question understands precise good the value of respecting planetary humanitarian instrumentality and its obligations, and understands precise good the needs of our radical for civilian services and the value of protecting them.

The bodies of Noa Marciano, pictured here, and Yehudit Weiss were discovered by the IDF successful the vicinity of Shifa Hospital past year. (Courtesy: Bring Them Home Now)

"I tin confidently accidental that Hamas hasn't utilized immoderate infirmary arsenic a subject basal oregon a structure for fighters," helium continued. "Regarding each the aggressions against hospitals successful the Gaza Strip, Israel wasn’t capable successful immoderate lawsuit to beryllium oregon to springiness superior oregon neutral grounds for its claims," helium said. 

"We telephone for the contiguous merchandise of Dr. Abu Safiya, manager of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was kidnapped by Israeli forces, with dozens of different medics. Israel is afloat liable and accountable for their lives. Dr. Safiya isn't a Hamas member," added Naim.

Hamas terrorists emerging from the shadows arsenic they situation Red Cross vehicles. (TPS-IL)

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A period aft Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, the IDF already began publishing grounds of Hamas's usage of hospitals, successful particular, for panic purposes. In 1 signaling from November 2023, a Gaza wellness authoritative tin beryllium heard confirming that Hamas had stored much than fractional a cardinal liters (over 132,000 gallons) of substance nether Shifa Hospital, the Strip’s largest aesculapian center.

Hamas was accused of systematically turning Shifa into a large bid halfway and adjacent storing weapons successful the MRI building. On Nov. 19, 2023, the IDF released surveillance footage of equipped terrorists bringing hostages into Shifa. The IDF discovered the remains of 2 Israeli hostages, Noa Marciano and Yehudit Weiss, successful the vicinity of Shifa past year.