A Washington Post analysis of publicly available material on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza concluded that Israeli evidence “falls short” of proving that Hamas used the hospital as a command and control center—further putting into question one of the most infamous episodes of Israel’s 11-week war on Gaza. The Washington Post published an analysis of “open-source visuals, satellite imagery, and all of the publicly released IDF materials” on 21 December. “The evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center,” the Post wrote. It then said that this lack of evidence “raises critical questions” by humanitarian and legal experts regarding the proportionality of Israel’s assault on al-Shifa. The analysis concluded that the rooms connected to the underground tunnel network showed no “immediate evidence” of military use, that none of the five hospital buildings identified by Israel as directly involved in Hamas activity appeared to be connected to the tunnel network, and that there is no evidence that the tunnels could be accessed from inside hospital wards. Israel raided al-Shifa Hospital on 15 November on the basis of…
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