Hamas tried to smuggle terrorists among Gazan civilians, US confirms
A senior White House official said on Saturday in a press briefing that the evacuation of the wounded and foreign citizens from Gaza was delayed because Hamas had tried to take some of its wounded fighters through the Rafah crossing to Egypt for treatment, Hebrew media sourced the official as saying.
"A third of the people who were on the list that Hamas submitted turned out to be Hamas fighters," said the official.
The senior official added that the administration is talking about a "humanitarian truce" and not a ceasefire, and claimed that it is impossible to talk about it "when a terrorist organization murders 1,400 people, kidnaps civilians, and hides in tunnels."
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