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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harry Davies

Claims of Hamas fighters in Gaza hospitals may have been exaggerated, says senior ICC prosecutor

Andrew Cayley sat in a room wearing headphones and with a mask around his chin
Andrew Cayley in 2020. He said the international criminal court faced ‘great difficulty’ in assessing the level of Hamas’s presence in hospitals. Photograph: Peter Dejong/ANP/AFP/Getty Images

Claims about the presence of Hamas fighters in hospitals in Gaza under siege by Israel’s military have been “grossly exaggerated”, a top prosecutor at the international criminal court (ICC) has said.

Andrew Cayley, who is leading the ICC’s Palestine investigation, questioned the reliability of claims about military activity in Gaza’s hospitals which have been made to justify Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities in the territory.

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