The Kamal Adwan ‘Hospital’ Was a Hamas Base of Operations

Those terrible Israelis are at it again. They have raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, “one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza,” we keep being told, closing it down, as part of their master plan of “genocide” in Gaza. They’ve even arrested the hospital’s head, Dr. Hussam Abu Safeya, a doctor whom we are told had bravely remained in the hospital to take care of patients. That’s the version you are being fed in most of the world’s media. The actual story of this hospital, which became a major command-and-control for Hamas, and a hiding place for hundreds of Hamas fighters and their weapons, can be found here: “‘His disguise was a facade’: How IDF revealed identities, Hamas’s plans in hospital – N12,” Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2025:

During interrogations by IDF investigators, soldiers learned that senior Hamas operatives were running the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya, Gaza, and planned to escape from the hospital during the IDF raid there last Friday using ambulances, Unit 504 investigators revealed to N12 in an interview published Thursday.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital was raided last Friday by the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), who arrested more than 240 terrorists, some of whom participated in the October 7 massacre. Security forces decided to raid the hospital after intelligence revealed there were hundreds of terrorists hiding inside the compound.

More than 240 terrorists had been hiding inside the hospital compound. Many were disguised as patients or as medical personnel. And some of the real medical personnel, most notably the hospital’s director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, were also members of Hamas. Dr. Abu Safiyeh was not just a member of Hamas, but a senior figure in the terror group.

An IDF reservist, Lt. (Res.) D., told N12 that while interrogating terrorists at the hospital, they all pointed to the hospital director and asked for him to come see them and help them. “We understood that the person at the very heart of the event, orchestrating the terror and Hamas activity in the compound, was the hospital director himself,” D. said.

The reservist recalled that during the raid on the hospital, the hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, was “strutting around like a peacock” and was “confident he wouldn’t be arrested, believing he was untouchable and in control of the situation.”

Sgt.-Maj. (Res.) A., another investigator present during the raid, confirmed that they discovered that the hospital director was a senior Hamas operative.

Master-Sgt. (Res.) G., a commander and combatant in Shayetet 13 who was also at the raid, also said that the hospital director “really did walk around the premises like a peacock.”

Dr. Abu Safiyeh watched as his doctors were incriminated one by one. He thought he wouldn’t be arrested. We realized that his disguise was just a facade—they were terrorists with blood on their hands. The hospital director understood that the entire charade had fallen apart, and in the end, he too was arrested,” he told N12….

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh was convinced the IDF would not discover his real role, or if it did, that it would be reluctant to arrest someone who was treated with such respect by the world media. But the IDF had the goods on him, not least because Hamas members who had just been captured at the hospital called for him to intervene with the IDF on their behalf. As he was led away for interrogation, he must have released with a pang that the jig was up. It will be fascinating to see the evidence made public by the IDF that makes clear his most important role at the Kamal Adwan Hospital was not as a medical man, but as the overall commander of the 240 Hamas members hidden in the hospital compound.

The IDF has for years been raked over the coals for airstrikes on ambulances. What the critics ignore is that the vehicles may once have been legitimately used as ambulances, but those that have been struck by the IDF were no longer used for that purpose, and instead were being used to ferry terrorists to safety. Ambulances leaving Al-Shifa Hospital were used to carry terrorists away, and so, too, were ambulances trying to leave the Makal Adwan Hospital. When the IDF discovers through its various sources that an ambulance is being used in that way, the vehicle loses its protected status and is a legitimate target. It’s a widespread practice by Hamas; many ambulances have turned out to be transporting terrorists from one hospital hideout to another.

Like “the dual-use” goods that Israel prevents from entering Gaza, Kamal Adwan turned out to be a “dual-use” hospital. It held a handful of real patients who were brought i, to provide cover for the compound’s real use, which was to serve as a command-and-control center for Hamas, to harbor 240 Hamas members, where their explosives, ammunition, and weapons were both prepared and stored. There were whole areas of the hospital where Hamas set up operational rooms; no civilians were allowed to enter them.

While the world’s media continue to deplore the “attack on one of the last remaining hospitals in Gaza,” the IDF is patiently gathering all the information it can about the use of Kamal Adwan Hospital as a Hamas base, including what has been confessed by the 240 Hamas members now being interrogated. When that final report on Kamal Adwan “Hospital” as a Hamas base, and on the true role of the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, is delivered to the world, a great many people should be mightily embarrassed. But they won’t be. They’ll ignore that evidence, and continue to criticize the IDF “for shutting down health services in Gaza.” The only people causing the “shutting down of health services” in Gaza is Hamas, that hides large numbers of its men and vast quantities of weapons in the Gazan hospitals, which the IDF then must treat as the Hamas centers that they have become.