US confident militant groups used Gaza hospital in campaign against Israel

The US is ‘confident’ that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital to hold ‘at least a few’ hostages seized during their bloody October 7 attack and to house command infrastructure, a declassified American intelligence assessment found 

The US is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during their bloody October 7 attack and to house command infrastructure, according to an American intelligence assessment declassified on Tuesday and shared by a US official.

The assessment offers the firmest US support for Israeli claims about the al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City, which was raided by Israeli forces in November in an operation decried by global humanitarian organisations and some members of President Joe Biden’s party.