Hamas Leaders Hide in Hospitals, UN Schools, Mosques

The Rabid Rabbits who comprise Hamas leadership are displaying their underworld nature by using human shields of various sorts.

Ten years ago, I was short-listed for the UN job of UNRWWA chief in Gaza, which would pay handsomely but require me to live in the arms-infested hellhole Hamas has made Gaza into. I thank God every day that this cup passed from my lips, and I did not drink the "cup of poison" Ayatollah Khomeini spoke about. Subsequently, on one of my trips to Israel while working for Amoco, I met and befriended one of the former heads of Shin Beth. Here is what another ex-Shin Beth chief said:

Hamas is using Gaza's Shifa Hospital as a meeting place and even distributed salaries to its operatives there over the weekend, Public Security Minister and former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Avi Dichter said Monday morning.


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Speaking on Army Radio, Dichter noted that "on Saturday, January 10, which is the day salaries are distributed in Gaza, several Hamas commanders who cannot come out of hiding were given their salaries at their hiding places. But those commanders who can move around Gaza made their way to Shifa Hospital to receive their wages."

Regarding Israeli intelligence reports that the Hamas leadership had taken refuge in Gaza's Shifa Hospital, Dichter said that the "Shifa Hospital has long ago ceased to be just a hospital, just as the UNRWA humanitarian and health services in Gaza long ago ceased to be just humanitarian services providing food and medical services."

"UN schools in Gaza long ago stopped being just schools," the minister said. "All these services and places are refuge for Hamas terrorists and commanders."

Daniel Pipes [whom I hired to come to Amoco to explain the FIS phenomenon in Algeria in the mid-nineties] is very pessimistic that Israel is bloody-minded enough to do the necessary in Gaza.