Gazans confirm terrorists hide in hospitals, dress up as medical personnel

Tel Aviv [Israel], November 21 (ANI/TPS): Gazans in Israeli custody confirmed to interrogators that terror groups actively operated in Gaza hospitals and even deeply embedded themselves in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in videos released by the Israel Defence Forces on Monday.
So far, 500 Palestinians have been interrogated by Arabic-speaking members of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate's Unit 504 at a detention facility in southern Israel, the IDF said.
The first Palestinian, identified only as having been apprehended inside Gaza on Nov. 12, told interrogators that these terrorists--dressed in civilian clothes--would use the hospitals as a base for attacks. They would also disguise themselves as medical staff while hiding in the hospital.
Asked how many terrorists he saw, the Palestinian answered, "I saw a lot of them--about 80, 90, 100. It reached 100 people."
He added, "They dressed as nursing staff, but they were not nurses or doctors."
Hamuda Riad Asad Shamalah, an internet application engineer at Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said that the terror groups also embedded themselves with the Red Crescent Organisation, which has a 10-story complex. He said he went there with his wife and three daughters "because I thought it was a safe and protected place."
He told his interrogator, "When the Hamas operatives remained in the compound, they continued to operate and hid the rockets and guns inside the mattresses. This was on a daily basis; no one can refuse them; if you dare to confront Hamas, they will kill you."
According to Shamalah, the sheer number of people at the Red Crescent headquarters was what made the complex appealing to Hamas.
Abdelrahman Ala Ibrahim Samour described to interrogators what he saw at the UNRWA-run Al Saweidi (Swedish) Clinic in the Shati refugee camp and also at the Rantisi Hospital.
At the Swedish clinic, Samour said he saw seven Hamas operatives inside. They were dressed in civilian clothes, but when asked how he knew they were Hamas, he replied, "They were armed. And I know one of them was from Hamas."
Samour said the terrorists did the same things at Rantisi "on a larger scale."
"There were so many of them, it was actually really scary. I was there for about five days and I was terrified."
As far back as 2009, the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) reported during the Gaza war of that year that Hamas operatives were hiding in the hospital and that the basement had become Hamas's headquarters.
A senior officer in Unit 505 said that since Oct. 7, "we have received thousands of phone calls from collaborators, on a scale never before seen in the unit."
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