Gaza City Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya recently had a hearing before an unidentified Israeli civilian Magistrate’s Court via videoconference in which his detention was extended, sources have told the Jerusalem Post.
Abu Salmiya is being criminally probed by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) under current war emergency regulations relating to Hamas and other terrorists connected to the war. …
The [November 23] statement stated, “The terror group Hamas utilized many resources, including electricity in order to strengthen its tunnels which it built under the hospital. In addition, Hamas kept military items stored in the hospital and in its immediate surroundings.”
In addition, the statement read that after the October 7 Hamas mass terror attack on Israel’s South, the terror group “used the hospital as a refuge for its terror forces and even brought Israeli hostages to there who were kidnapped during the day of slaughter. A pathology report confirmed that soldier Noa Marciano was murdered on the grounds of Shifa Hospital.”
[Israel has a wartime process of detention that is now being applied. The Jerusalem Post’s sources say that Salmiya is not suspected of conducting terror operations himself, but that’s not going to matter much if hostages got killed under his direction of the hospital. Salmiya’s arrest made headlines last month, but his cause has slipped far down the priority list now. — Ed]
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