If what she says is true

If what one hostage interviewed recently by CNN is true, then Hamas is indeed keeping some of the hostages seized during their terror attack against Israel last October 7 in hospitals.

According to Sharon Aloni Cunio, she and her family were held at the Al Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza.

Cunio said she was kidnapped along with her husband, David, and their two daughters that day and then held in a house in Gaza for nine days before the house was bombed.

“Then they decided to move us. They brought in an ambulance that disguised David as a corpse, they put me in traditional Arab clothes and they put Julie (one of her daughters) on me and covered her with a sheet and told me to look down,” she said.

She goes on to say something even more damning, that hospital personnel knew what was going on.

“They (Hamas) used one hospital personnel to come and see us every other day. He knew who we are, went along with it. And we were held there up until we were released.”

If this is true then Hamas has been lying all along about its claims that hospitals are not being used strategically.

Of course, everything must be taken with a grain of salt. There is always the possibility that Cunio isn’t telling the truth or may have just been coached or coerced into saying what she did.

But if what she says is true and Hamas did use one hospital to detain hostages then there is always the possibility that they are using other hospitals for the same purpose. It is also possible that they might have bases in some of them as well as weapons caches.

We must also consider that hospital personnel might have known hostages were being kept there, but they didn’t have much choice in the matter other than to cooperate with Hamas.

Either way, whether they have hostages or not, whether they have bases or weapons caches or not, this makes hospitals even juicier targets for the Israel Defense Force. And for that Hamas will have to share a huge part of the blame.