PA Health Ministry: Hamas using hospitals as detention centers

[oberliner]

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry accused the Hamas-run de facto government’s security services of turning medical centers into virtual prisons on Saturday.

According to a statement from the Health Ministry, Hamas has used hospitals and clinics in Gaza as interrogation and detention centers, where medical staffers have been expelled.

“After Israel ended its aggression in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry was surprised that Hamas militants returned to their old behavior, expelling medical staff and using medical centers as detention centers, and for torture and interrogation,” the statement said.

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35588

[Turbineguy]

1. IBTL

Hamas is a wonderful organization filled with lovely and dedicated people so stop saying that.

[oberliner]

2. Why would the thread be locked?

I don't get it.

[Turbineguy]

3. Actually,

I've seen a lot of these sorts of threads vanish...

Jes sayin'

[delad]

4. jebus, if that is true ...

honestly, wtf???

how reliable is Maan news?

[oberliner]

5. Here's another article on this from another Palestinian source (WAFA)

Hamas Turns Medical Facilities into Detention Center

GAZA, February 7, 2009 (WAFA)- The Palestinian Ministry of Health accused, Saturday, Hamas militias of turning some of the Ministry’s medical facilities in Gaza into detention centers.

After the end of the Israeli three week offensive on the Gaza Strip, 'Hamas unfortunately used several facilities, mainly a large number of hospitals, as stations for summons, interrogation, torture and detention,' the Ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry added that Hamas militias has also fired dozens of employees, loyal to Palestinian National Authority, after breaking their general strike and returning to their work following the Israeli massacre in Gaza launched on December 27, 2008.

Hamas militias took over a number of buildings in Al-Shifa, the main hospital in the city, Al-Nasser pediatric clinic and the psychiatric hospital.

http://english.wafa.ps/?action=detail&id=12599

[shira]

8. not just hospitals as detention centers, but also mosques and kindergartens

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.palpress.ps/arabic/index.php%3Fmaa%3DReadStory%26ChannelID%3D49557&tbb=1

but who cares, right, so long as these Palestinians are suffering victims of Hamas - not Israel.

:sarcasm:

[ohio2007]

12. Hamas worries about the rise of the fifth columnist state

amd the human rights watch people stopped protesting hamas actions because they are now accepted as routine operation procedures

[Idealism]

6. I would like to hear something from UNRWA or HRW about this

If it is true, these organizations that are on the ground, would have known about it I believe.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Why should they? They are not running the hospitals

[Idealism]

9. They have staff constantly in and out of hospitals

It is something that would have come up somewhere. Hopefully we will get some clarity on this

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. Really? HRW?

They would not have free run of the hospitals any more than they would have free run in a western hospital.

[Idealism]

14. UNRWA certainly would know of it

Someone would, there are some journalists inside Gaza...

[ohio2007]

13. here is some hamas clarity you have been asking for

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e42_1231416294
clear enough ?

[ohio2007]

10. They got an upgrade to "torture chambers" according to another article

released two days ago.


btw
any word on the photo op of hamas giving back the UN aid they stole?