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Hamas Back in Control of Hospital Hideout
(Wall Street Journal) Suha Ma'ayeh - Heavily armed Hamas fighters seized the Jordanian Field Hospital complex in Gaza City after Israeli forces withdrew as part of a ceasefire deal. This followed a gunbattle with a rival Palestinian group - the Doghmosh family, re-establishing Hamas control over what had long been a redoubt for the Islamist militants. Israel's military said Hamas had turned a building on the hospital grounds into a base of operations. In October, the IDF took journalists to the Jordanian Field Hospital to show a tunnel with an underground rocket production site that opened next to a small building for Hamas personnel behind the hospital. The IDF released drone footage from inside the tunnel, which showed several rooms, a bathroom, rocket casings and a lathe.