Asked whether Israelis have shared any new intelligence since the raid on the hospital began, White House spokesman John Kirby said, “I’m not going to talk about specific intelligence that may pass between the two of us.”

“That’s really for them to speak to, but as I said the other day, we’re confident in our own intelligence assessment about how Hamas was using that hospital,” Reuters quoted Kirby as saying in a briefing.

Hamas fighters were sheltering themselves in the hospital and using the facility as a shield against military action, placing patients and medical staff at risk, he said.

“We have our own intelligence that convinces us that Hamas was using Al-Shifa as a command and control node, and most likely as well as a storage facility.“We are still convinced of the soundness of that intelligence.”