The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it.
Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.
A small hospital generator would burn that on about 3 hours. This is a dog and pony show.
That sounds like a reasonable amount to provide, since they can provide another shipment 2h later if it actually goes to the hospital. (At full power it’d be 30 minutes, but I assume critical loads only could be powered a lot longer).
The evidence provided is weak though, and it could easily be staged. We didn’t get lucky by having Hamas publicly confirm that they indeed did it, but it’d be inline with their other statements that show utter disregard for Palestinian life.
Testing the waters before sending more is a good tactic
What if they send more and Hamas intercepted it as they did with this one?