Following the IDF's offer of humanitarian assistance to the director general of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the IDF initiated a humanitarian effort to coordinate transfer of incubators from a hospital in Israel to the Shifa Hospital.
“The IDF remains committed to upholding its moral and professional responsibilities to distinguish between civilians and Hamas terrorists,” said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
“The IDF is willing to work with any reliable mediating party to ensure the transfer of the incubators,” it added.
The IDF released a recording of a phone call in which an officer from the Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA) to Gaza, speaking with the Director General of Shifa Hospital, can be heard offering the incubator as well as helping evacuate children and patients from the facility.
Asked if there was anything else the hospital needed, the Director General of the hospital said it needed respirators for some children who were in need of oxygen.
The Israeli officer said he would do what he could to secure the needed equipment.
The IDF has presented evidence that Hamas uses the Shifa Hospital as its terror headquarters.
Nevertheless, over the weekend the IDF coordinated the transfer of fuel for urgent medical use to the Shifa Hospital. Later, the IDF received evidence that Hamas officials prevented the hospital from receiving the fuel.