The Israeli army has said its ground soldiers had hand-delivered 300 litres of fuel to the Al-Shifa Hospital “for urgent medical purposes”.

AFP was unable to independently verify the footage, or Israel’s claim that Hamas “forbade the hospital from taking it”.

Al-Shifa director Mohammad Abu Salmiya told journalists the Israeli claims were “lies”. The 300 litres the army said had been delivered would power generators for “no more than quarter of an hour” anyway, Abu Salmiya said.