Israel ticker: According to the minister, Israel is doing everything it can to free the hostages in the Gaza Strip

According to the Israeli military’s findings, the Islamist Hamas is denying hospitals in the Gaza Strip the fuel it has hoarded. Hamas has stored “more than” a million liters of fuel, “but is not giving it to hospitals in need,” explains Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus on the X platform (formerly Twitter). “Hamas is responsible for the suffering in Gaza, not Israel,” says the spokesman. United Nations aid organizations complain that the first aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip have so far failed to bring any fuel into the area.

“The fuel we want to bring in is the fuel that (Palestinian relief agency) UNRWA needs. It will be for our operations. And of course there also has to be fuel for the hospitals and so on,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Monday in New York. He did not answer the question as to whether it was Israel that had so far refused permission.

The responsible Cogat authority in Israel, on the other hand, accuses Hamas of using the approximately one million liters of fuel it has stored to “light up its terror tunnels, fire rockets and provide it for their own homes” instead of for the civilian population. There is no independent confirmation of this information.