In our forthcoming issue, Alex Brummer refers to an incident of which I was totally unaware - not surprising, since it received zero coverage in the UK media.

Shifa hospital in Gaza City, to which the victims of Israel's bombings are taken, was the scene of another example of Hamas' peaceable intent. Hamas gunmen entered the building, took six injured Palestinians from their beds, dragged them outside and murdered them.  

Have a read of this account, from the Herald Tribune of 29th December:

At Shifa Hospital on Monday, armed Hamas militants in civilian clothes roved the halls. Asked their function, they said they were providing security. But there was internal bloodletting under way.

In the fourth floor orthopedic section, a woman in her late twenties asked a militant to let her see Saleh Hajoj, her 32-year-old husband. She was turned away and left the hospital. Fifteen minutes later, Hajoj was carried out of his room by young men pretending to transfer him to another hospital section. As he lay on the stretcher, he was shot in the left side of the head. A bit of brain emerged on the other side of his skull.

Hajoj, like five others who were killed at the hospital in this way in the previous 24 hours, was accused of collaboration with Israel. He had been in the central prison awaiting trial by Hamas judges, and when Israel destroyed the prison on Sunday he and the others were transferred to the hospital. But their trials were short-circuited.

A crowd at the hospital showed no pity after the shooting, which was widely observed. A man in his thirties mocked a woman who expressed horror at the scene.

"This horrified you?" he shouted. "A collaborator that caused the death of many innocent and resistance fighters?"

Another man told her, "It was his brother who killed him to wipe away the shame from his family."

Sobhia Jomaa, a lawyer with the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, said 115 collaborators were in the central prison. None had been executed by Hamas since it took office and their cases were monitored closely, she said.

"The prison provided the sole protection to all of them," she said. "But once it was bombed, many wanted to take revenge."

Dr. Hussein Ashour, director of Shifa Hospital, said keeping his patients alive from their wounds was hard enough for him. He said there were some 1,500 wounded distributed among Gaza's nine hospitals with far too few intensive care units, equipped ambulances or dozens of other kinds of equipment.