Hamas says Biden to blame for al-Shifa raid

Hamas has said US President Joe Biden provided Israel a ‘green light’ for Israel’s raid on al-Shifa hospital.

Hamas said it held Israel and Biden responsible for the fallout from what it said where attacks that amounted to a “barbaric crime against a medical facility protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention”.

“The Israeli occupation and everyone who colluded with it to kill children, patients and innocent civilians will be held accountable,” the group said in a statement.

“The White House and Pentagon’s adoption of the false Israeli narrative claiming that the resistance uses the al-Shifa Medical Centre for military reasons constituted a green light for [Israel] to commit more massacres against civilians, and to forcibly remove them from the north to the south to continue the occupation’s plan of displacing our people," it added. 

Israel has said Hamas fighters are operating inside and beneath al-Shifa hospital where hostages may be located. 

On Wednesday, the US said it had intelligence that backed up the Israeli claim and said that by operating within a hospital Hamas itself was committing a war crime.

The US and Israel haven’t provided specifics to support their claims that fighters are located at al-Shifa.