The New Director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Military Hospital Loves Terrorism — and the Press Doesn’t Care
The media continues to treat Gaza hospital officials like Dr. Sakher Hamad as neutral sources—even when they openly glorify Hamas, jihad, and the murder of Jews.
In recent days, media headlines have once again sounded the alarm over Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital:
These stories often cite the hospital’s current director, Dr. Sakher Hamad, as a source of information. But there’s just one problem: Dr. Hamad has a long, public record of supporting Hamas terrorists and glorifying jihad. And this isn’t a one-off.
In December 2024, I revealed that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the hospital’s previous director, was not just a physician — he was also a Colonel in Hamas. Less than 24 hours after my exposé, Abu Safiya was arrested by the Israel Defense Forces and has remained in custody ever since.
That investigation also uncovered that Kamal Adwan was not simply a civilian hospital as portrayed by international media, but a military hospital — referred to as such by Hamas itself in Arabic-language news reports and even on the hospital’s own Facebook page.
And it didn’t end there.
I discovered that multiple hospital directors and deputy directors in Gaza were either active members of Hamas or openly praised the group and celebrated the murder of Jews on social media. The conclusion was inescapable: Gaza’s medical infrastructure is operated by Hamas — which anyone paying attention would realize, since Hamas is/was the totalitarian government ruling the strip.
Now, as Israel renews its ground offensive under Operation Gideon’s Chariots, Kamal Adwan Hospital is back in the spotlight — with Dr. Sakher Hamad cast as its sympathetic, credible face. But Hamad is anything but neutral.
Who is Dr. Sakher Hamad?
While I haven’t yet found evidence tying Dr. Hamad to a formal Hamas rank like his predecessor, Dr. Abu Safiya, his social media history reads like a jihadist recruitment brochure.
In 2017, Hamad glorified slain Hamas commander Mazen Faqha, writing:
“May God have mercy on you, Mazen… congratulations on Paradise. I believe that silence is sometimes better than promises and pledges, and acting in silence is better, more beautiful, and more powerful… What matters is action.”That same year, he posted an image of Jerusalem stylized as the hilt of a sword, alongside the slogan—and I kid you not:
“We have come to slaughter you.”
In 2018, he posted photos of Hamas’ Qassam Brigades fighters with the caption:
“May God protect you and grant you victory.”
In 2019, he shared a photo of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists embracing, rebuking anyone who wished for their separation and writing:
“They are brothers united on the highest path of Islam: jihad in the name of Allah.”In 2020, Hamad posted a cartoon depicting a Hamas naval commando fishing a rocket out of the sea, captioned with a Quranic verse describing it as a divinely granted “treasure” — implying that weapons of war were a mercy from God.
This is the man Western media outlets are treating as a reliable source on humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
The question isn’t whether journalists are aware of Hamad’s views — a quick search of his public Facebook profile would make them impossible to miss. The real question is: Why does the press continue to ignore Hamas’s stranglehold over Gaza’s hospitals? Why not do even an ounce of research into the people they’re quoting? If the roles were reversed — say, an Israeli hospital director calling for the slaughter of Palestinians — you know the media would be all over it. But when it’s a Hamas supporter (if not member) in a lab coat leading a terror group’s military hospital? Silence.
We can’t expect Hamas operatives to tell the truth. But we should absolutely expect more from the journalists who quote them.
The mainstream press is so anti Israel that they refuse to recognize that Hamas has totally infiltrated every organization in Gaza. What was Mohammed Sinwar doing in a tunnel underneath the European hospital? Getting medical treatment?