IDF and Shin Bet Expose Hamas Torture Chambers Inside Gaza Hospital

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet revealed intelligence on Thursday indicating that Hamas uses the Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, for security interrogations, torture, and governance activities unrelated to medical care. According to the intelligence, Hamas is facing declining support among Gaza residents and fears losing control over the population. In response, the group has intensified its security operations, employing intimidation, interrogations, and torture to maintain authority.

The exposed information details that on the second floor of the outpatient clinics, within a building called "Yassin," Hamas's internal security and military intelligence conduct interrogations. The hospital complex is reportedly exploited as a political center for interrogations, torture, and extortion, separate from its medical functions. Patients and medical staff have witnessed a constant presence of Hamas operatives, some masked, throughout the hospital.

Additional interrogations occur in a building formerly used as hospital offices, later converted into a cafeteria and then a prayer room, now serving as a Hamas interrogation center. Israeli security officials stated that Hamas's activities in the hospital create fear and harm patients, service providers, and medical personnel. They emphasized that Hamas's use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes violates international law. The IDF warned Gaza residents that Hamas's fear of losing control drives its use of hospitals, schools, and other civilian facilities for its security needs.