Biden defends Israel incursion into al-Shifa hospital against Hamas 'headquarters'

Source: The Hill

Biden defends Israel incursion into al-Shifa hospital against Hamas ‘headquarters’

BY LAURA KELLY - 11/15/23 10:20 PM ET

President Biden on Wednesday put his support behind Israel’s incursion into al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, saying that Hamas had committed the first war crime by making the health facility a command center of its military operations.

“You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military, hidden under a hospital. And that’s a fact, that’s what’s happened,” the president said at a press conference following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.

Biden said he was absolutely confident that what U.S. and Israeli officials have described as a command center around and underneath the hospital was true, even as he declined to detail that intelligence and evidence that he had.

Israeli forces on Wednesday published photos and videos from inside the hospital in the Gaza Strip purporting to show numerous weapons caches hidden behind an MRI machine, in the closets of hallways and in rooms in the hospital.

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