As we’ve been reporting, Israeli soldiers say they’re continuing their search of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital. They’ve shown the BBC items they say they found inside – including 15 guns, bullet-proof vests and other items including laptops.
A senior Hamas leader has now directly responded, rejecting Israel’s assertions that this is evidence of a Hamas control centre underneath Al-Shifa.
Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and many other Western countries but, speaking in Beirut, Osama Hamdan denied that Hamas based itself under hospitals in Gaza.
Without providing evidence, the Hamas official said that the few weapons Israel actually found during its raid on Al-Shifa were brought in and planted by Israeli soldiers. He said that Hamas kept well away from Al-Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza.
He also ridiculed a digitally generated video – recently released by Israel – which purported to show an elaborate complex underneath the hospital.
Hamdan is the top Hamas official in Lebanon and is the most senior figure from the organisation to comment, so far, on the latest Israeli statements
Source BBC
