Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday after holding him for seven months without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been used as a Hamas command center. He said he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and tortured.
The decision to release Mohammed Abu Selmia, apparently taken in order to free up space in overcrowded detention centers, sparked uproar from across the political spectrum, with government ministers and opposition leaders saying he should have remained behind bars.
They reiterated allegations that he had played a role in Hamas’ alleged use of Shifa Hospital, which Israeli forces have raided twice since the start of the nearly nine-month war with Hamas. Abu Selmia and other health officials have repeatedly denied those accusations, and that fact that he was released without charge or trial was likely to raise further questions about them.
Wasn’t access to the Hamas tunnels found in a hospital early on in the invasion of Gaza? Also, didn’t the director of said hospital admit to being a member of Hamas?
Israel lies about tunnels. Western news crews even caught them staging guns around one to try and pretend it was used by Hamas, before allegedly flooding the next claimed tunnel and refusing to ever let people see it.