A British doctor who worked at Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip three years ago told France24 that the hospital staff worked in fear of the Hamas terrorists who used the hospital as their base.
He said that when he first started working there, he was told that ” there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot.”
“I cannot emphasize too much the air of collective paranoia that existed there,” he added.
In a separate report, Times of Israel (TOA) spoke to a journalist from Italy who said that he visited hospitals in Gaza right after Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
“Shifa is a very large compound,” he told TOA. “I got lost inside it, and at some point, I ended up on an underground floor, and I found myself in front of two armed Hamas men in military attire, who told me to get out.”
“I got the impression they were guarding a security door that gave access to their underground infrastructure. Several Palestinian sources I spoke with later on confirmed that Hamas’s command and control center was located under Shifa Hospital and that [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh had been hiding there throughout the duration of Operation Cast Lead.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
5 Responses
This is shocking. There may actually be a possibility that the hospital is used for terror activity!? This seems to be a human rights violation!
It is not enough for readers of “Yeshiva World News” to know this.
This article, and all articles that document the evils of Hamas,
must be broadcasted and publicized to the entire world.
Well stated SQUARE ROOT. This report MUST be sent immediately to the BBC amongst others. If any YWN readers have access to other news outlets, they will be doing a big mitzva to get this broadcast to them.
Refoel, do you seriously imagine the BBC don’t know it very well?! They have been deliberately covering it up!
of course the hospital was being used as a terrorist front cmon wake up everybody and please maybe start reading the news now more often already ok who even cares about human rights violation did hitler yh care about human rights during the holocaust of course not so why in the world would hamas act any different from hitler now u know