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| Gaza hospital chief admits to being Hamas commander, using clinic as military base |
| 2023-12-19 |
| ]NYPost] Convenient, that The head of a Gaza hospital has admitted to being a senior Hamas commander — and detailed how the terror group transformed the medical site into an operational hub that once housed a kidnapped Israeli soldier. Ahmad Kahlot, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, made his taped confession to the Israeli security service Shin Bet after his arrest during last week’s raid on the facility in northern Gaza. In a video of his interrogation released on X on Tuesday, Kahlot, dressed in an Israeli jail uniform and seated in front of Israel’s flag, said he joined Hamas in 2010 and held a rank equivalent to a brigadier general. Kahlot revealed that about 16 hospital staffers, including doctors, nurses, paramedics and clerks, were also members of Hamas’ notorious military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. According to the hospital chief, the medical facility under his care had been turned into an elaborate military hub where up to 100 Hamas terrorists had been holed up for days before moving to a different location. Some of the group’s leaders even had offices with private phone lines inside the hospital, Kahlot said. "There is a designated space for interrogations, internal security and special security," he revealed. Asked by the Shin Bet interrogator why Hamas’ top brass chose the hospital as its bolthole, Kahlot said, "Because from their perspective, the hospital is a safe place. They won’t be harmed inside the hospital." Kahlot also revealed that Hamas had once brought a kidnapped Israeli soldier to the hospital and used its own private ambulance service to transport the bodies of hostages tied to its Oct. 7 massacre. He did not name the soldier or say what happened to him later. But the Hamas chief had some choice words for other leaders of his terror organization — blasting them as "cowards. "They left us out in the open while they have gone into hiding," he said. "The people are the ones who got screwed. "They sacrificed us, unfortunately," the hospital director added in a dejected tone of other bosses. Related: Kamal Adwan Hospital: 2023-12-17 Al-Qassam, Al-Quds Brigades carry out multiple ops against Zionist invaders; IDF ties up 90 turbans in hospital, finds weapons stashed in preemie incubators; connected but unimportant people killed in war zone Kamal Adwan Hospital: 2010-10-08 Israel steps up military air activity at crucial phase of peace talks Kamal Adwan Hospital: 2009-09-21 Two killed, three injured in Israeli shelling on northern Gaza |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 The Times of Israel adds that hospital employment was diverse and inclusive: He adds that several members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades are also employed in the hospital. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-19 20:03 |