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IDF Claims Footage Shows Hamas Used Al-Shifa Hospital as “Terrorist Infrastructure”

November 20, 2023
Photo: Alleged CCTV footage from Al-Shifa Hospital on 7 October

The Israeli army said that Hamas used the Shifa Hospital in Gaza as “terrorist infrastructure” on the day of the 7 October attack, providing CCTV footage allegedly showing two hostages surrounded by armed Hamas members being rushed for treatment, in a post on X on 19 November. “EXPOSED: This is documentation from Shifa Hospital from the day of the massacre […] in which hostages, a Nepalese civilian and a Thai civilian, were abducted from Israeli territory are seen surrounded by armed Hamas terrorists,” the Israeli military wrote. These findings, it added, “prove that the Hamas terrorist organization used the Shifa Hospital complex on the day of the October 7 Massacre as terrorist infrastructure.” Some social media users questioned these claims, saying that the video only shows wounded individuals being taken in for treatment. They also questioned why Hamas did not erase the footage if it was incriminating. “Um. This is evidence that the hospital was being used as… a hospital,” one user wrote in response. Others contended that there were closer hospitals Hamas could have taken the hostages to if they sought medical treatment for them. Al-Shifa is the largest…


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