'Fuel will be transferred, with monitoring, to the hospitals.'
The chief of Israel’s armed forces signalled willingness on Thursday to ease its wartime embargo on fuel for the Gaza Strip, saying that if hospitals there run out they could be resupplied under supervision.
It has allowed in humanitarian aid but ruled out fuel imports, citing a need to starve Hamas’s power generators. “Note that, for more than a week now, they have been telling us that ‘tomorrow the fuel in hospitals will run out’. So, far it has not run out,” Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi said during a televised appearance, in response to a reporter’s question.
Signalling that Israel was willing to escalate the war, including against Hamas’s allies in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region, Halevi said the airforce was currently bringing less than half of its capabilities to bear.
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