The IDF and Shin Bet claim that Hamas used a hospital as a military headquarters.
According to the IDF and the Shin Bet, Hamas stored combat equipment inside the hospital compound, conducted interrogation and torture operations there through its internal security and intelligence agents, operated command and control rooms, and used the facilities as observation points and shelters for traffic elements. The two said that they seriously consider this use of civil and medical infrastructure, as it endangers patients, medical staff and citizens.