Analysts say Gaza 'civilian' deaths include Hamas, other terror members working as medics, media workers

As Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) publically assertion their dead, caller probe shows that galore antecedently counted arsenic civilians were successful information members of the violent organizations, undermining accusations that Israeli forces deliberately targeted civilians successful Gaza.

Researchers monitoring the Hamas-run wellness ministry’s decease reports told Fox News Digital that a increasing fig of 'martyrs' were exposed arsenic terrorists by their ain groups specified arsenic Hamas, contempt maintaining nationalist identities arsenic healthcare oregon media workers.

Gabriel Epstein, elder argumentation subordinate astatine Israel Policy Forum, told Fox News Digital that helium has tracked aggregate individuals named by Hamas and PIJ arsenic martyrs killed successful conflict successful Gaza who held positions successful the wellness industry, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs.)

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Smoke rises and shot of occurrence implicit a buildings successful Gaza City connected October 9, 2023 during an Israeli aerial strike. (Photo by Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Epstein recovered respective individuals labeled arsenic aesculapian unit who are besides members of violent groups. The astir superior revelation from the martyr database is Fadi al-Wadiyya, a physiotherapist for Médecins sans frontières, who was killed by Israel Defense Forces successful June 2024. MSF responded to the death, saying they were "outraged" and "strongly condemn[ed] the sidesplitting of our colleague."

When the IDF claimed that al-Wadiyya was a subordinate of PIJ, MSF said they had "no anterior knowledge" of his "alleged engagement successful subject activities" and said they had "not received immoderate ceremonial explanation" of "the circumstances of his killing."

In a Telegram relationship claiming to beryllium the media reserve for the Al-Quds Brigades, a station mourning al-Wadiyya’s martyrdom connected Feb. 24 lists the physiotherapist arsenic an adjunct to the subject manufacturing portion of PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades.

Fox News Digital asked MSF whether they were alert of al-Wadiyya’s PIJ connections anterior to the martyr announcement. A spokesperson said, "We would not knowingly employment radical engaging successful subject activity" arsenic it "would airs a information to our unit and patients by compromising our neutrality."

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Hamas terrorists marching successful Gaza during a parade.  (Getty Images)

The spokesperson said that "MSF had nary denotation that Fadi Al Wadiya mightiness person been progressive successful subject enactment of immoderate benignant anterior to the Israeli authorities’ online posts successful June 2024. In the contiguous aftermath of Al-Wadiya's killing, we asked for explanations from the Israeli authorities, but ne'er received an authoritative response. If the Israeli authorities were alert of Al-Wadiya's links with militant activities, they ne'er shared this info with america until aft helium was killed. To this day, the lone accusation they shared and that we are alert of is what was shared done nationalist societal media posts."

The IDF banned MSF operations successful Gaza from the opening of March due to the fact that the enactment refused to supply a database of its Palestinian employees. In effect to Fox News Digital’s questions astir whether they would see providing this database to the IDF presently, MSF’s spokesperson said, "We did not stock our unit lists with Israel due to the fact that we did not person factual assurances to guarantee the information of our unit oregon the autarkic absorption of our operations. This is simply a spot wherever humanitarian workers person often been detained, attacked, and killed. We person a work to support our colleagues from harm."

Epstein shared respective different cases of healthcare workers who played salient roles successful panic groups.

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Ambulances carrying patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Beit Lahya, Gaza City. Oct. 12, 2024.  (Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Mohammed Akram Abdullah al-Kafarna was mourned by the Palestinian Nursing and Midwifery Association’s Facebook leafage arsenic the nursing supervisor astatine Kamal Adwan Hospital and by the Institute for Palestine Studies arsenic caput of the Gaza nursing system.[v] A Telegram relationship that lists members of Hamas’ best-outfitted Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, al-Kafarna is described arsenic 1 of Beit Hanoun’s "Qassam Martyrs."

Ayman Suleiman Aliyan Abu Tayr was listed arsenic martyred successful Khan Younis successful June 2025. The Institute for Palestine Studies labels him arsenic a caregiver and caput of the objective nutrition section astatine Nasser Hospital. According to a Telegram relationship linked to PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades, Abu Tayr was a Commander successful the Central Operations Unit of the Al-Quds Brigades.

Jaber Abdulhamid Diab Mohammedin was mourned connected the Palestinian Ministry of Health General Directorate of Nursing’s Facebook leafage arsenic an Intensive Care Unit caregiver astatine the Al-Rantisi Specialized Children’s Hospital. A Telegram relationship linked to the Islamic Jihad Movement lists Mohammedin arsenic a commandant successful the subject manufacturing portion of the PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigade.

Nidal Jaber Abdulfattah al-Najjar is labeled arsenic an head astatine the Palestinian Ministry of Health, according to the Institute for Palestine Studies, portion a mourner connected Facebook noted that helium worked successful the Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital. He is labeled connected a Telegram relationship emblazoned with Hamas’ distinctive reddish triangle arsenic a martyr commandant of Hamas’ Al-Radwan Battalion.

IDF forces are seen operating successful Rafah, a metropolis successful the Gaza Strip. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Salo Aizenberg, manager of media watchdog radical HonestReporting, told Fox News Digital that helium is tracking astatine slightest 10 "virtually indisputable" examples of journalists who are really combatants, moving with Hamas and different violent groups.

David Adesnik, vice president of probe for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that helium has besides been tracking the disclosures. "With PIJ, the fig of commanders who operated with civilian screen is striking," Adesnik said. "We’re astatine a constituent wherever the grounds indicates that this duplicity was a regular portion of a strategy to infiltrate civilian organization, particularly humanitarian ones. This provides entree and extortion portion ensuring outrage erstwhile these expected humanitarians are killed."

Adesnik said helium believes it "likely that Hamas besides employed this strategy successful a systematic way, but close present we chiefly person the PIJ disclosures. Given that Hamas is galore times larger, if it were to disclose this benignant of information, the effects could easy ripple crossed the humanitarian assemblage successful Gaza."

Among the cases Aizenberg is tracking are media workers. He said that his database is "based solely connected admissions by those groups and different Gazan sources," and "does not see the galore further examples identified done Israeli evidence."

Yahya Sinwar, the erstwhile Hamas terro person who was killed by the IDF, waves to a assemblage successful Gaza. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Though the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) cites Yacoup Al-Borsch arsenic a writer and the enforcement manager of Namaa Radio, Aizenberg has recovered "numerous societal media posts and martyr notices identifying him arsenic a combatant and ‘mujahid.’" This includes a Facebook station from an relationship affiliated with the Al-Omari Mosque successful Jabalia.

Ahmed Abu Sharia was a freelancer who worked for outlets similar Iranian Tasnim News Agency, the CPJ says. According to the "official" Telegram tract of the Mujahideen Brigades, the Palestinian Mujahideen movement’s subject wing, helium was besides a subordinate of the Mujahideen Brigades.

Rizq Abu Shakian was a "media idiosyncratic and head for the pro-Hamas Palestine Now Agency," according to CPJ. Shakian besides appears successful Hamas azygous connected a Telegram tract that shares images of Palestinian martyrs. According to Aizenberg’s research, helium was a subordinate of the Al-Qassam Brigades.

In effect to questions astir whether CPJ would update listings of journalists who person been claimed arsenic panic affiliates, the radical directed Fox News Digital to its argumentation for updating listings, which states, "CPJ has a long-standing argumentation of updating its information and the accompanying communicative accounts without issuing ceremonial corrections arsenic caller accusation becomes disposable implicit time. In definite cases, a grounds whitethorn beryllium removed from nationalist presumption erstwhile caller accusation leads CPJ to find that a lawsuit falls extracurricular its mandate oregon for information concerns, specified arsenic the information of the writer and their family.  CPJ volition publically grounds erstwhile it has removed a writer from the database for a crushed extracurricular of information concerns. "

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As the shaky ceasefire successful Gaza continues, analysts accidental they proceed to spot worth successful intimately examining the war’s casualties. Epstein said that "reviewing cases of militants who held dual civilian roles successful cardinal sectors similar media, healthcare and acquisition is important for the humanities grounds and underscores the accusation limitations press, government, and analysts look successful existent clip during conflict." He said that "over time, militant recognition tin springiness a consciousness of conscionable however heavy Hamas, PIJ and different militant groups' clasp implicit cardinal sectors successful Gaza was."