The Israeli army said the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas confiscated fuel stored in Gaza hospitals, against the wishes of hospital managers and specialists.
The army released this Wednesday an audio recording of a telephone conversation allegedly intercepted by Israeli intelligence services in which two men can be heard speaking Arabic, one identified as a “Gaza resident and Hamas commander” and the other as a “hospital center employee.”
“Despite its sensitive nature, this intercepted intelligence information has been declassified to expose the cynical exploitation of humanitarian resources in the Gaza Strip by Hamas,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
“The video confirms that Hamas controls the distribution of energy in the Gaza Strip, prioritizing the needs of terrorists over the needs of the civilian population,” an Israeli military officer said in a videoconference meeting with foreign press.
According to the recording, the alleged commander of Hamas, specifically the Islamic group’s so-called “Western Jabaliya Battalion”, repeatedly refers to the fact of “taking fuel from the hospital’s reserves” because, according to him, he is “working with the government for the good of the country”, so his alleged the interlocutor ultimately carries out the order, despite the warning that this is inconvenient for the work of the medical institution itself.
Likewise, a military officer noted that “Hamas continues to use the humanitarian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip to support its terrorist activities at the expense of the Gazans.”
“We are fighting against a brutal terrorist group that committed the October 7 massacre,” the military leader said, referring to attacks carried out by Hamas into Israel that killed more than 1,400 people and abducted 240.
In response, Israel launched a military offensive that went on the ground last Friday and has seen continuous bombing of the Gaza Strip that has already killed more than 8,800 people and injured more than 22,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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