Asked about hospitals in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country is helping patients by establishing evacuation corridors amid fighting on the ground, but insists that no immunity will be given to Hamas terrorists.
"We have designated routes to a safe zone south of Gaza City," he told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday. "We want all civilians to be moved out of harm's way."
However, he stressed that Hamas is "doing everything in its power to keep them in harm's way."
"We've called to evacuate all the patients from that (Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest) hospital, and 100 or so have already been evacuated," Netanyahu told CNN.
"There's no reason why we can't just take the patients out of there."
Some context: CNN cannot verify Netanyahu's claims about evacuations from Al-Shifa.
Israel earlier announced a corridor near the hospital, but the International Committee of the Red Cross said it could not confirm any evacuations had taken place.
Heavy fighting near the medical center has left it in a “catastrophic situation,” with patients and staff trapped inside, ambulances unable to collect the wounded and life-support systems without electricity, health officials in Gaza and aid agencies are reporting.