A New Jersey plastic surgeon now running for Congress with Rep. Ilhan Omar's endorsement worked in a hospital in Gaza that functioned as a Hamas command center—and dismissed reports that there were terror tunnels located underneath the hospital before Hamas boss Mohammed Sinwar was killed in a tunnel directly under the hospital's emergency department.
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a former Army combat physician, did a tour of duty working at Gaza's European Hospital in May 2024, staying for roughly three weeks amid a period of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas. When he returned to the United States, he became a go-to "expert" for left-wing media outlets seeking to rebut reports that Hamas terrorists used hospitals as command centers and operated terror tunnels underneath them.
"I saw no fighters at all," Hamawy told Rowan University's student newspaper the Whit in October 2024. "I didn't see any guns in the hospital, there was no one that I could identify as a combatant. There were definitely no tunnels underground, and no command base there. And this isn’t just me, this is unanimous, everybody that's coming back, people who were at Shifa hospital, people at Nasra hospital. There's been no evidence to actually show that anyone like that was there."
He repeated the claim to the socialist magazine Jacobin shortly after his return, calling the Gaza European Hospital a "completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it."
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