A top Hamas official has announced new conditions for delivering medicines to hostages held by the group in Gaza, insisting trucks carrying the drugs must not be inspected by Israel, AFP reports.

Musa Abu Marzuk, a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, revealed new conditions for the delivery of medicines to hostages.

“For every box of medicine that goes in for them, 1,000 boxes will go in for residents of Gaza,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.

Marzuk said the medicines would be supplied through a country Hamas trusts and not France and would go to different hospitals.

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