Netanyahu calls release of Gaza hospital director 'severe mistake and moral failure'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the release of the director of a Gaza hospital where Hamas was embedded “a severe mistake and a moral failure” and demanded the establishment of a team to approve future releases.

Shifa Hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiya was released on Monday morning along with close to 55 other Palestinian prisoners.

The hospital was proven to have been used to keep hostages and house weapons and ammunition intended to kill Israelis.

Salmiya was arrested in November on suspicion of involvement with Hamas’s embedding itself in Shifa Hospital.

“This man, und...