Squad-backed NJ Dem Adam Hamawy spent a month at Gaza hospital where Israelis later exposed tunnels and found Sinwar

WASHINGTON — The New Jersey Democrats’ newly crowned nominee for the 12th Congressional District race, Adam Hamawy, once spent a month at a hospital in Gaza, which he insisted was “completely benign” months before the Israelis found a tunnel system leading to a Hamas leader.Hamawy, an Egyptian-born former combat surgeon, had done volunteer work at Gaza’s European Hospital in May 2024 for several weeks and later publicly fended off accusations that Hamas was operating there.

“In my three weeks at the European Hospital, I did not see a single weapon.Not one rifle.

Not one pistol.Not one grenade launcher.

This was a completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it,” he told Jacobin Magazine months later in August 2024.Questions about Hamawy’s shocking ties to people or organizations associated with terrorism loomed over his campaign, but there hasn’t been proof that he was personally involved in terrorism.Notably, Hamawy fought for the US in the Iraq War, where he served as a surgeon and later received awards for his service.

Sen.Tammy Duckwork (D-Ill.) has said he saved her life after she was injured when her helicopter was taken down.The future congressional hopeful reiterated his claims about the hospital in Gaza being benign multiple times publicly, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.

But about a year after his volunteer work at the facility, Israel took down notorious Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, who was a mastermind of the bloody Oct.7, 2023, attack.

He was also the brother of Yahya Sinwar, the notorious leader of Hamas at the time of the attack.Other top, now deceased Hamas leaders worked out of there, such as the terror group’s Rafah Brigade commander, Mohammad Shabana, and South Khan Younis Battalion commander Mahdi Quara, according to the Times of Israel.Hamawy had decried the conditions on the ground in the beleaguered Gaza Strip that he observed, describing it as “numbing” and railing against Israeli o...