The left told us Hamas wasn't using Gaza hospitals as military bases. They called it Israeli propaganda. They called it a lie. They were wrong, and one of the loudest voices spreading that line is now asking American voters to send him to Congress.
Dr. Adam Hamawy is an Army veteran, a plastic surgeon, and a Democratic congressional candidate in New Jersey's 12th District. He is also, it turns out, a case study in what happens when ideology runs ahead of reality and no one bothers to ask hard questions.
Hamawy spent three weeks at Gaza's European Hospital in May 2024. When he came home, he didn’t just share what he saw. He became a go-to media source for outlets eager to dismiss Israeli claims that Hamas was using hospitals as command centers. He has said it was a “completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it.”
At a Rowan University event co-hosted by the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, he went further:
“I saw no fighters at all. I didn't see any guns in the hospital, there was no one that I could identify as a combatant. There were definitely no tunnels underground, and no command base there.”
He didn’t present that as a limited observation. He presented it as a consensus.
“This isn't just me, this is unanimous,” he said, pointing to other doctors who had worked across Gaza hospitals.
The media ran with it.
It was a confident, sweeping claim, exactly the kind that gets amplified when it fits the narrative. He had the credentials. He was a doctor. He was an Army veteran. He had been there. That carried weight.
It was also wrong.
In May 2025, Israel killed Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar in a tunnel beneath the European Hospital’s emergency department.
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His body was recovered from a passage roughly eight meters underground that Israeli officials said was part of a broader tunnel network in southern Gaza, along with four other senior operatives, who were killed alongside him, according to Israeli officials.
The IDF says Israeli hostages were likely held in that same tunnel system while Hamawy was working in the building above.
A Golani major who led the operation put it candidly:
“We found a military base under a hospital, period.”
Hamas denies the claims, and some news organizations note that full independent verification isn't possible. That caveat deserves acknowledgment. But reporters were physically taken into the tunnel and described what they found: mattresses, maps, operational plans, explosives, weapons. The smell of death was still in the air three weeks after the strike.
Hamawy is now running for Congress with Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's (MN-05) endorsement and support from several groups aligned with the party's progressive wing. His campaign has not responded to questions about his past statements.
Was he lying? Possibly not. Hamas has a long record of concealing infrastructure from the people living and working above it, and a doctor operating in a hospital ward had no reason to go looking for tunnels eight meters below. That's a legitimate point, as far as it goes. What's harder to explain is the certainty. Hamawy didn't say he hadn't seen any tunnels. He said there were none. He didn't hedge. He didn't say "not to my knowledge" or "not in the areas I worked." He made a sweeping claim, attached other doctors' names to it, and repeated it publicly.
He is now asking voters to trust that judgment on issues far more consequential than what was beneath one hospital in Khan Younis. The voters of New Jersey's 12th District can decide what his certainty is worth.
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/04/28/dem-candidate-dismissed-hamas-claims-at-gaza-hospital-sinwar-was-later-found-below-it-n2201769
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