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ICYMI: EVIDENCE SHOWS HAMAS OPERATES FROM THE NASSER HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Testimony from a freed hostage and a Hamas terrorist shows that Hamas operates from the Nasser hospital. Released hostage Sharon Alony Cunio said Hamas terrorists held her and nearly 30 other hostages on the first floor of the Nasser hospital, where she was told to sleep beside her three-year-old twins “on a small bed, using a bloodstained pillow,” according to Israeli media.
Additionally, a Hamas operative confirmed the terrorist group held hostages in the Nasser hospital’s wards. In the newly released footage, the Hamas militant explains that the hospital has “three rooms for Hamas” and that a Hamas hostage guard told him approximately 10 hostages were held in the hospital.
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KEY EXCERPTS
- Soon, the captors moved [Sharon’s] family. Sharon said terrorists covered her husband in a sheet so he looked like a corpse and dressed her in traditional Arab clothes. They packed the family into an ambulance and brought them to a hospital Sharon now recognizes from the news as Nasser, in Khan Younis.
- [Sharon’s family] spent the weeks in a room on the hospital’s first floor. Stacked boxes separated the hostage section from the rest of the floor, Sharon said. She described sleeping with the girls on a small bed, using a bloodstained pillow. At one point, she said, 12 hostages were packed in the room. Nearby, they learned, were two additional rooms of captives, nearly 30 in total.
- Food didn’t come on a regular schedule, but most days captors brought two meals. Sharon described spicy rice topped with meat, and often-moldy pita bread with feta. Cunio lost 11 kilos (24 pounds) and said they each suffered from vomiting and diarrhea at least once.
- Sharon said the family won’t return to the kibbutz, whose idyllic flowering paths and orange groves now give way to homes pockmarked by bullet holes. Sharon sends the girls to preschool each day and hugs them at night, soothing them through their nightmares. When she gets a moment to herself, she turns to an archive of her husband’s voicemails. “I love you, you’re the best,” he says. “I promised him I’d fight for him,” Sharon said. “I won’t stop until he comes back.”
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