A Gaza doctor and hospital director who criticized Israel in two separate New York Times op-eds has been revealed to be a Hamas colonel. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is a Palestinian pediatrician and the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya. Moreover, NGO Monitor and other online researchers identified multiple Arabic-language sources that openly refer to Safiya as “Colonel Hussam Abu Safiya.”Kamal Adwan Hospital itself is also considered to be a Hamas stronghold. Despite his rank in Hamas being well known within Arab media circles, Safiya was nevertheless invited to write opinion pieces for the NYT. “Those who platformed Abu Safiya must do some serious soul-searching, and figure out how they ended up promoting the propaganda of a literal Hamas terrorist,” Chebat told the New York Post.

Source: International New York Times February 01, 2026 20:02 UTC