Resurfaced photo shows detained Gaza hospital director wearing Hamas uniform

"A decade-old photograph resurfaced on Saturday showing Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group.

Abu Safiya holds the rank of colonel in Hamas’s Military Medical Services, according to the MMS and Palestinian media reports. The MMS is separate from Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, though its members directly participated in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught of southern Israel.

Israel detained Abu Safiya along with nearly 240 others during a raid on the medical facility in December 2024, alleging that Hamas was using the military hospital as a command center.

The photo was shared on Saturday by the NGO Monitor Group. It was uploaded to the MMS Facebook page a decade ago, and shows a gathering of top Hamas officers in the terror group’s National Security Forces and MMS celebrating the completion of the hospital, according to a report in The New York Post, citing the advocacy group.

According to the newspaper, a Facebook post uploaded on the Gaza Strip Medical Services page in 2020 also referred to Abu Safiya as a colonel..."