2Photo© hindustantimes.comUS believes Hamas used Al Shifa Hospital but evacuated before Israeli operation: Report
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The US said that it was "confident" Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad used Gaza's biggest hospital to hold "at least a few" hostages that were seized on 7 October following the group's attack in Israel which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel's subsequent assault on Hamas-ruled Gaza killed over 22,000.
Israel-Hamas War: An Israeli soldier secures a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.(Reuters)
American intelligence assessment finds backed Israeli claims about the Al Shifa hospital complex which it believes the groups "used the al Shifa hospital and sites beneath it to house command infrastructure, exercise certain command and control activities, store some weapons, and hold at least a few hostages".