Testimony: Hamas rules in Al-Shifa Hospital, attacks and beats women

Posted text: "Testimonies of women from the Ahl tribe residing in Gaza about the new specialty of what is called the Hamas security police. They removed the women's clothes until they were left in underwear. They beat them with clubs until they broke. They shot between (i.e., under) their legs. They asked them to pay for the cost of the bullets they shot between their legs."

Woman in Gaza: "I am one of the women from the Ahl family who were attacked at Al-Shifa Hospital. We went yesterday to visit one of the injured at Al-Shifa Hospital... They [Hamas] arrested three of the women along with their small children… We went to tell the [security] police forces present at Al-Shifa Hospital… They beat us with clubs, hit us, and removed our head coverings. They removed the abaya (i.e., robe) of one of the women to take the phone with which she filmed the attack... They beat us vigorously with clubs and shot under our legs. Also, they took one of the women, beat her, took her phone, allowed her to delete the videos, and told her that her phone was confiscated until the next day. She went the next day to retrieve it, and they took her to the prosecution, imprisoned her, took her to the Deir Al-Balah police, and then asked her to pay the cost of the bullets shot under our legs."

[Fatah spokesman Dr. Jamal Nazzal, Facebook page, Sept. 8, 2026]