ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital to run its military operations, and probably to store weapons, saying those actions constituted a war crime.
“We have information that confirms that Hamas is using that particular hospital for a command and control mode” and probably to store weapons, national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters aboard Air Force One. “That is a war crime.”
He said those actions by the Palestinian militant group did not lessen Israel’s responsibility to protect civilians.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland, writing by Andrea Shalal, editing by Chris Reese)
