Mick Hartley

Last night, the IDF delivered 300 liters of fuel for urgent medical purposes to Gaza's Shifa Hospital. Soon after, Hamas confiscated the fuel.

This is what we are dealing with. Israelis are risking their lives to get fuel to patients and Hamas is stealing it. All accusations… pic.twitter.com/c44xzergeE

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 12, 2023

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From the Jerusalem Post:

Israeli security forces delivered 300 liters of diesel fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza early Sunday morning and later received intelligence indicating that Hamas had intercepted the delivery, according to a Sunday night IDF statement….

The IDF released three separate recordings of the event. The first was an audio recording of an exchange between a representative of the Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), which implements civilian policy regarding the Israeli government's activity in the Gaza Strip, and an official from Shifa Hospital.

The two discussed the delivery logistics, explaining where to go and how it would be conducted.

"After we deliver the fuel," the CLA representative said, "our forces will move back so that they won't be next to the junction. You will send an ambulance to take the fuel."

The second was a video of IDF soldiers delivering 300 liters of fuel on Sunday morning near the hospital.

Finally, the IDF shared a recording of a conversation between an IDF officer and a health official in Gaza, in which the health official stated that Yusef Abu Rish, director general of Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, prevented the hospital from receiving the fuel.

"There is a problem at Shifa," said the health official. "Be patient with me."

"What's the story?" asks a CLA representative.

"Abu Rish doesn't want this amount [of fuel]. We are trying to convince him."

IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagadi said the military would help evacuate babies from the hospital, at the request of the staff at Shifa.

Israel has said doctors, patients, and thousands of evacuees who have taken refuge at hospitals in northern Gaza must leave so it can tackle Hamas terrorists who it says have placed command centers under and around them.