Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital but Hamas had refused to receive it, Reuters reports.

Netanyahu was asked by NBC News whether Israeli allegations that Hamas had a command post under Gaza’s main hospital justified jeopardising the lives of sick people and babies.

“On the contrary, we offered actually, last night, to give them enough fuel to operate the hospital, operate the incubators and so on, because we [have] no battle with patients or civilians at all,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu was asked if Israel had a plan to get fuel into Gaza to power hospitals. “We just offered Shifa hospital the fuel, they refused it,” Netanyahu said.