Hamas uses hospitals for terror purposes, Gaza hospital director admits
Ahmed Kahlot (pictured), the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya in the north of the Gaza Strip, made the confession under interrogation
Kamaal Aduan Hospital head Ahmad Kahlot of Jabliya in Gaza has confessed to the Shin Bet that Hamas took over his hospital as a military operations center, it was revealed on Tuesday.
Kahlot told his interrogators that he joined Hamas in 2010 at the equivalent rank of a brigadier-general.
Next, he said that many of the hospital staff doubled as members of Hamas’s az-al-adin al-Qasam brigades. These include doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other staff.
More specifically, he said that the hospital had 16 staff members who doubled as terror operatives for Hamas.
Kahlot was arrested on December 12 and since then has explained in detail how Hamas concealed its weapons and wove its operations into the workings of the hospital.
Hostage IDF soldier held in hospital
In addition, he confessed that Hamas brought one of the IDF soldier hostages to the hospital and used ambulances to move around Israeli hostages’ bodies.
The IDF has put out general evidence of Hamas abusing nearly all of its 20-plus hospitals and specific evidence of more extensive abuse of a few hospitals, such as Shifa and Rantisi.
Shifa Hospital’s Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested by the Shin Bet on November 23 and his detention was extended for 45 days by a videoconference court hearing on November 27.
Hamas fighters used a 'safe' hospital as a terror base knowing they 'won't be targeted', the director of a Gaza medical facility has admitted to Israeli security forces.
Ahmed Kahlot, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya in the north of the Gaza Strip, made the confession under interrogation, Israeli media reports.
He told Shin Bet officials that Hamas used the hospital to hide its operatives, carry out military activities, move its personnel around and even bring in captured soldiers, according to Israel National News.
'They hide in hospitals because for them a hospital is a safe place. They won't be targeted when they are inside a hospital,' Kahalot said, the outlet reported.
Kahlot said he was recruited by Hamas in 2010. 'I know 16 employees in the hospital - doctor, nurse, paramedic, or clerks… who also have different positions in al-Qassam.'
The al-Qassam brigades is the military wing of the terror group that attacked Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 Israelis and taking 240 hostage into Gaza.
'There are offices where the Hamas leader and two of the senior officials were. There's a place where the soldier was in (the kidnapped soldier),' he continued.
'There's a place for the interrogators, internal security, and special security. All of them have private telephone lines inside the hospital.'
He added: 'They [Hamas] have a private ambulance, even its colour and the way it's painted are different, and it doesn't have a license plate.
'They used it to transport the soldier [kidnapped] and transport bodies… It didn't assist us with transporting the injured,' Israel National News quoted him as saying.
'I begged him to take someone to the Indonesian Hospital, take to Shifa [hospital], but he would refuse. His mission is more important.
Despite suggesting he was a member of the group, Kahalot criticised Hamas' use of his and other hospitals. 'The leaders of Hamas are cowards. They left us in the field while they hid in secret places… They have destroyed us.'
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