Confusing US claim about Gaza hospitals

White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said they received information that Hamas was using the “tunnels beneath” some hospitals in Gaza to “hide, carry out its military operations and hold hostages.” “.

Speaking to reporters, Kirby addressed allegations that Hamas used some hospitals in Gaza.

Kirby stated that they had received information from different sources that Hamas was using some hospitals and “under tunnels” in the Gaza Strip to hide and carry out its military operations.

Kirby argued that, according to the intelligence in question, some hospitals in Gaza, including Shifa Hospital, were used by Hamas to “hide, carry out its military operations and hold hostages.”

Kirby said they do not support airstrikes on hospitals, saying: “Hospitals and patients must be protected. “We don’t want to see a conflict in the hospital where innocent, helpless, sick people are simply trying to get the treatment they deserve,” she said. (AA)