Overview
- Israel’s military and the Shin Bet said Thursday that their intelligence names the Yassin building and a converted compound at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as sites where Hamas runs interrogations, torture and extortion.
- Doctors Without Borders suspended noncritical services at Nasser earlier this year after reporting the presence of armed men inside the compound, a fact officials cite as partial corroboration.
- The Israeli statement says patients and hospital staff have repeatedly seen masked operatives across the compound, creating fear that has disrupted care and staff willingness to work.
- Human rights and law-of-war norms bar military use of hospitals, and officials say the claims could deepen humanitarian harm in southern Gaza and complicate efforts to advance disarmament or revive ceasefire talks.
- The allegation builds on the post-2023 conflict landscape in which ceasefire arrangements and territorial division left space for armed groups to reassert control over public institutions and local governance.