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Teukka4/08/2024 10:11:02 am PDT

The IDF releases footage from the interrogation of the spokesman for the political wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, in which he admits that the terror group tried to hide the fact that one of its rockets struck Al-Ahli Arab Hospital at the beginning of the war, as well as saying that terror operatives use “all hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”
Tarek Abu Shaluf was among 500 terror operatives captured by the IDF at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital last month, the military says.
The IDF says Abu Shaluf “advanced acts of incitement and propaganda from within the Shifa Hospital, and testified to the use of the compound and medical equipment for terror purposes.”
In the video, Abu Shaluf tells an interrogator of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 that the blast at Al-Ahli hospital (which he refers to by the local name of “Mamadani Hospital”) was “a local rocket, we said it was Israeli.”
Israel accused Islamic Jihad of firing the rocket which fell short and hit the hospital in late October, reportedly killing dozens of people, hours after Hamas officials falsely blamed an Israeli strike, a claim that was widely reported by international media outlets.
“To erase this story, the movement (Islamic Jihad) made some moves, it made up a story that the rocket belonged to the occupation (Israel) and that the target was the [hospital] building,” Abu Shalaf says.
Asked by the interrogator which hospitals Islamic Jihad and Hamas use in Gaza, Abu Shalaf says “All of the hospitals.”
“Because there is internet there 24 hours, there is electricity 24 hours,” he says, explaining that when terror groups use the hospitals, they occupy a room or two in each ward, without needing to close an entire department.
Abu Shaluf in his interrogation also details the use of ambulances by terror operatives at the hospitals.