Is proposed site in Gaza really a hospital, or spy station?
Some Palestinian authorities have pledged to obstruct plans to build what they fear could be a US-Israeli military intelligence camp, while Hamas says the facility will be a field hospital in the Gaza Strip.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A field hospital being established in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip continues to stir animosity between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas officials.
Abbas pledged twice within three days to work against the project, which Hamas says is a US-backed field hospital and the Palestinian Authority (PA) insists is a US military intelligence facility with ties to Israel. On Dec. 6, he said during the PLO Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah that the PA will not allow the United States to establish the hospital, nor will it indulge Israel’s plan to establish an industrial island off Gaza's coast.
