Gaza hospital used by militants

The Telegraph also reports Gaza hospital used for weapons, NGO admits.

MSF said it had never seen any hostages, Hamas fighters or other armed men in the hospital until witnessing gunmen arresting, intimidating and attacking patients in recent months.

It refused to say who the gunmen were, even though Khan Younis is controlled by Hamas and Nasser Hospital is managed by the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel’s foreign ministry said on Sunday: “MSF now admits there are ‘armed men and suspected weapons movement’ inside Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.

“In Gaza, armed men inside hospitals are Hamas terrorists. Israel has warned for years that Hamas exploits hospitals as terror infrastructure. Better late than never.”

During a week-long operation in the area of the hospital in February 2024, Israeli special forces arrested 200 Palestinians suspected of terror activity.

The IDF also said that “sealed medicines were found in the hospital, with the names of Israeli hostages on them, and large quantities of weapons were found”.

In May last year, the IDF said it had “precisely struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from within a command and control centre located in the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis”.

It added: “The compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.”

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/15/gaza-hospital-used-for-weapons-ngo-admits/

Yes I went down a rabbit hole and completely agree with you there. She does not appear to have any genuine motivations (and a very privileged background too)

How naive and stupid to think the Iranians will welcome her with open arms

It's only because I've been following some Iranian democracy protestors that I knew. Walsh is a horrible person, I truly believe she is more motivated by hate for the West and Israel than love for Palestinians or other oppressed groups

Her wiki is fun. Fits the usual profile.

So nothing to do with the British groups founders then. Probably should have made that clear .
She sounds like a particularly unpleasant person reading her bio.

(Sorry that wasn't directed at you. I know you didn't post the other information.)

She's been on Iranian News, Press TV, along with Bushra Sheikh, spinning the line that the protesters in Iran are all Israeli agents and that the Iranian population absolutely love the regime

https://x.com/PressTV/status/2022351309081628911

Calla Walsh, an American who a co founder of the US Palestine Action group which was renamed Unity of Fields, is currently in Tehran and posting on social media from there.

Yes, anyone with a brain would have known this and understood the hysteria as a distraction technique. Importantly, has anyone told the Sky news presenters yet?

I agree, I'm still waiting for the gotcha moment.

It's not clear who the militants are Hamas (which no one has denied they could be) or Israeli supported militia.

MSF reported this to the authorities and publicised it and are clearly not in kahoots with them (long accused of this by the Israeli government). instead are bring intimidated by them.

It doesn't prove any Israeli narrative.
Far more concerning is the amount of Humanitarian workers killed or doctors refused entry.

Link to the poster’s X was unintentional. Not sure why the link to the X account from quoted post wouldn’t detach from my post.

Yes, it’s a report in their FAQs on the website. I’m not sure why this is framed as an admission or why it is assumed that reading a report in a list of FAQs requires a degree of sleuthing:

‘MSF’s admission was first reported by independent analyst Salo Aizenberg.’

The link to the Guardian article above is from September 2025. The situation for humanitarian workers must be as terrifying now as it was before the ‘ceasefire’.

Who were?

Well that’s the suprise of the century

"In the FAQ disclosure, MSF did not explicitly identify the armed men or link them to specific groups. But by reporting the presence of masked fighters, intimidation of civilians, and suspicion of weapons movement within the hospital compound, MSF’s account aligns with Israeli officials’ long-standing narrative that medical facilities have not been strictly neutral zones."

At least they are acknowledging that they were where people thought they were now.

Can I ask where you got this information from?

MSF are banned from working in Gaza from March 1st anyway, which could be relevant to their decision to speak out now.

From OPs source:

The Algemeiner has previously documented claims acknowledged by the Palestinian Authority that Hamas summoned Gazans to the Nasser compound for interrogations and that militants threatened hospital staff.

Terrorists from both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an allied group in Gaza, have confessed that they took over hospitals across the enclave, using the medical facilities to hide military activities, launch attacks, and hold hostages kidnapped during their Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.

In the FAQ disclosure, MSF did not explicitly identify the armed men or link them to specific groups. But by reporting the presence of masked fighters, intimidation of civilians, and suspicion of weapons movement within the hospital compound, MSF’s account aligns with Israeli officials’ long-standing narrative that medical facilities have not been strictly neutral zones.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/02/13/doctors-without-borders-admits-gaza-hospital-used-militants-halts-operations/

Agree @Ellen2shoes . The situation is completely unclear and obviously the identity of these militants currently is not known.

@dagda it shows in the facts linked in the OP that MSF reported these militants promptly and were not working with them despite the persistent smear campaign against them.

Do people think this justifies all the attacks on healthcare facilities or something?

Justifies that a majority of hospitals and health care units were attacked. Justifies the 1,700 health care workers who were killed

Does it justify the delay in the delivery of critical health care equipment I wonder? Or the fact that many basic medications are still not available.

And for years the same posters are saying organisations like MSF are just making stuff up to smear Israel.

Exactly. I’m not surprised MSF backed out of sharing data. Increasingly unstable since the ‘ceasefire’.

Israel-backed militia groups potentially threaten new peace plan for Gaza

An official with a major aid agency operating in Gaza said they had not “heard from the de facto authority” – a euphemism for Hamas – since March and were now dealing with a “variety of different actors”.
“In the north there is nobody in charge, in the central area there are some really powerful families and some small informal militia … and in the south you have formalised Israeli clients who get weapons and so on from the Israeli military,” they said. “Law and order is deteriorating, the social fabric is falling apart and people are really desperate and in survival mode and it is becoming everyone for themselves.”
Many such armed groups have a record of looting aid or extorting protection payments from humanitarian organisations as well as from other Palestinians living in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/israel-backed-militia-groups-potentially-threaten-new-peace-plan-for-gaza

It’s always Israel’s fault in your eyes whatever shit is happening in Gaza or who is dishing it out.

The thread title is no surprise to those of us who don’t automatically disbelieve anything the Israeli authorities say @HappyFace2025

I guess the pro Pals will believe it now MSF are saying it - though still find a way to criticise Israel for it not the actual militants moving weapons around & intimidating patients.

Have MSF confirmed if they are Hamas or are one of the four armed militia groups Israel are supporting?

The judges described Palestine Action as “an organisation that promotes its political cause through criminality and encouragement of criminality”, a definition seized on by Mahmood. But they found that, as such, most of its activities could be dealt with by criminal law, and did not amount to terrorism – meaning that proscribing the group could not be justified given the interference with protected rights.

Well I never!

A bit of tumbleweed around here....