IDF: Hostages’ Bodies Held in Khan Younis Hospital

February 16, 2024

by: Roi Rubinstein ~ Ynetnews

Friday, 16 February 2024 | Israel Defense Forces [IDF] forces are operating in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis against the Hamas terror organization, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said during a briefing on Thursday evening.

Hagari revealed a document from the interrogation of a Hamas terrorist, who said: “Dozens of Hamas operatives were in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis during the war. At least 10 hostages were held there.”

“We do not enter hospitals without reason,” Hagari said. “Rather, as we have shown repeatedly since the beginning of the war, the use of hospitals as terrorist bases is one of the fundamental aspects of Hamas’s operational method.”

“Shifa, Rantisi, the Turkish hospital, and others—we have exposed how Hamas uses them for terrorist purposes,” he added.

“In Nasser Hospital there are approximately 400 patients and thousands of displaced civilians. It is for this very reason that Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist, some of whom participated in the October 7th massacre, chose to hide there,” according to Hagari.

“Following interrogations of terrorists arrested or surrendered in the area and testimonies of hostages who returned, we can confirm that kidnapped individuals were held in the hospital compound. In addition, we have information that bodies of hostages were also held there,” he said during the briefing.

“In recent hours, IDF Special Forces have been operating in the hospital area against Hamas terrorist infrastructure and scanning it to find hostages. While no findings have been made yet, we are still searching and will update all findings,” Hagari said.

“So far, we have arrested dozens in the hospital area suspected of involvement in terrorism, who have been transferred for further investigation, and we have found weapons, including grenades and mortar shells, within the hospital compound, placed near a point from which mortar shells were fired at our forces a month ago. At exactly that point, this was detected by our radars—firing from the Nasser Hospital at our forces—mortar fire from the hospital compound.

Posted on February 16, 2024

Source: (Excerpt of an article originally published by Ynetnews on February 16, 2024. Time-related language has been modified to reflect our republication today. See original article at this link.)

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