The Hamas government media office has issued a statement calling Israel’s raid on Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital a “war crime”, a “moral crime” and a “crime against humanity”, writes BBC.

It said 9,000 patients, medical staff and displaced civilians were at the hospital when the raid happened under the cover of night.

In a video on X, formerly Twitter, by the Palestinian Information Center, Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq said Israel attacked a civilian facility, not a military installation.

In an earlier statement, Hamas said it was holding Washington and US President Joe Biden responsible for the raid.

Both Israel and the US claim that Hamas - a proscribed terror group in the US, UK and EU - has a command base under Al-Shifa, which Hamas denies.