Hamas said that amounted to giving Israel a “green light” for Israel to raid the hospital, and it held US President Joe Biden fully responsible alongside Israel itself for a “war crime”, Reuters reports.

The United States said on Tuesday that its own intelligence supported Israel’s conclusions about the presence of a Hamas headquarters at Al Shifa.

Medical personnel and the multitude of internally displaced people are now facing a “barbaric assault” on a health facility safeguarded by the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hamas statement said.