US intel confident militant groups used largest Gaza hospital in campaign against Israel: AP source
The U.S. is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few" hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7 attack and to house command infrastructure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza's largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7 attack and to house command infrastructure, an American intelligence assessment declassified Tuesday and shared by a U.S. official found.
The assessment offers the firmest U.S. support for Israeli claims about the Shifa hospital complex, which was raided by Israeli forces in November in an operation decried by global humanitarian organizations and some members of President Joe Biden' s party. Yet the information released doesn't fully back some of Israel's most significant allegations that the hospital served as the central node for activities by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The U.S. official shared the assessment on the condition of anonymity.
The U.S. believes that Hamas members evacuated days before Israel raided the complex on Nov. 15 and that they destroyed sensitive documents and electronics before Israeli troops entered the facility.
