(DailyWire) At roughly 1:30 Eastern Time on Monday, CNN reported a U.S. official confirmed what was widely suspected: Hamas has command headquarters underneath Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, which has been encircled by Israel Defense Forces.
At the same time, President Biden told reporters that the hospital “must be protected.”
“A US official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the Al-Shifa hospital, uses fuel intended for it and its fighters regularly cluster in and around Gaza’s largest hospital,” CNN reported, adding, “Hamas and hospital officials have denied the accusation that the hospital is being used as a command center.”
That followed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stating on Sunday, “You can see even from open-source reporting that Hamas does use hospitals, along with a lot of other civilian facilities, for command-and-control, for storing weapons, for housing its fighters. Without getting into this specific hospital or that specific claim, this is Hamas’ track record, both historically and in this conflict.”
Yet as the White House confirmed that Hamas has command headquarters under the hospital, Biden told reporters at the White House, “It’s my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. The hospital must be protected.”
Literally an hour apart
1:30pm: U.S. Intel confirms Hamas has command node under Al-Shifa Hospital
2:30pm: Biden says Al-Shifa Hospital “must be protected,” urges less intrusive action against Hamas pic.twitter.com/HxrSRfBoNm
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) November 13, 2023
Israel’s military operation in Gaza to root out Hamas follows the October 7th attack, in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,400 Israelis in the worst massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on “CNN’s State of the Union”:
