[2] The group has been profiled by the medical doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse (president of NORWAC) during the conflicts in Gaza.
[3] NORWAC was also scrutinised during a subsequent investigation of funds allocated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[3] During the conflicts in Gaza in 2009 and 2014, Gilbert and Fosse were accused in Norway and abroad of facilitating propaganda by Hamas.
[8][9] In 2014 it was reported that a hospital run by NORWAC in Syria in the town Tell Abyad treated wounded soldiers from terrorist organisation ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
[2] After subsequent investigations by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs found that ISIL had enforced religious rules at the hospital, including rituals for prayer, gender segregation and regulations on clothing, Foreign Minister Børge Brende cancelled all financial support directed to the hospital.