{"id":643331,"date":"2026-10-11T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/643331\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:22:09","slug":"idf-hamas-using-northern-gaza-hospital-as-operational-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/643331\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF: Hamas using northern Gaza hospital as operational center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IDF released footage on Sunday that appears to show Hamas terrorists operating in the Kamal Adwan Hospital<\/a> in \u00a0Beit Lahia, the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

According to the IDF, the footage shows how the terror group uses the hospital’s grounds as an operations center.<\/p>\n

The military said that the footage shows that Hamas is still exploiting the presence of patients, medical staff, and civilians as human shields, which is a violation of international law.<\/p>\n

“The hospital and its surrounding area have been used by Hamas<\/a> and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) over the past few years to advance terror plots against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the military said. “This was done while exploiting a medical facility and despite repeated calls by Israel and the IDF to refrain from the military use of medical facilities.”<\/p>\n

The military struck the site, which was also located 50 meters away from the Yellow Line and 170 meters away from a school, and called it an example of Hamas’s systematic use of civilian and humanitarian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The IDF had already operated near the hospital in 2024 and 2025, with one of the operations showing that both Hamas and the PIJ used the site to store weapons and explosives.<\/p>\n

During another operation, the military captured Anas Muhammad Faiz al-Sharif<\/a> near the hospital and transferred him to Israel for questioning. He later revealed how Hamas uses the hospital as a base for operations.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that the hospital grounds were used to transport equipment and weapons for launching attacks against Israeli forces. Sharif, 21, who joined Hamas in 2021, is one of 240 terrorists who were apprehended in the area surrounding the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeapons were moved in and out of the hospital for ambushes and tunnels,\u201d he said. The IDF emphasized that intelligence from these arrests has proven critical for ongoing operations.<\/p>\n

Sharif also said Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives believed the IDF would avoid targeting the hospital because of the presence of patients and civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believe the army can\u2019t bomb the location, like with an F-16 missile, or destroy the building,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF released footage on Sunday that appears to show Hamas terrorists operating in the Kamal Adwan Hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,60,51,149228,4144,1031,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-643331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-war","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-news","tag-hospital","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}