The medical staff of a Gaza hospital are members of the Hamas terrorist group and used the facility as their base, a doctor  had confessed to Israeli authorities.

The admission of Ahmed Kahlot, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabaliya, is shown in a video of his interrogation  by Israel's military intelligence agency Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces that was released on Tuesday.

Sixteen members of the hospital's staff — including doctors, nurses and paramedics — were Hamas operatives serving in the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the Times of Israel quoted Kahlot as telling interrogators.

Kahlot, who identified himself as a lieutenant colonel in Hamas since 2010, also revealed that several members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades were also employed in the hospital, ToI reported.

"There are places for senior officials. They also brought a kidnapped soldier there,"  he said, according to ToI. "There is a designated space for interrogations, internal security and special security. They all have private phone lines within the hospital."

Israeli troops raided the Kamal Adwan hospital on 12 December, arresting and detaining around 90 suspected terrorists inside and seizing numerous weapons.

According to a joint Shin Bet and IDF statement on the operation, some of those captured at the hospital had participated in the 7 October massacres in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 240 were taken hostage.