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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/24/mark-regev-israel-gaza-fuel-collins-vpx.cnn
Hamas Confiscates Fuel Sent into Gaza
(CNN) Mark Regev - Mark Regev, senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told CNN on Tuesday: "Israel has given the green light for medicine, for water, for food - humanitarian aid for the civilian population [in Gaza]....Fuel, unfortunately is essential for the Hamas military machine. They need it for their rockets, they need it for their underground terror network of tunnels." "We had a documented case last week when CNN reported that 6 tankers went in through the Rafah crossing with Egypt and it was said that the fuel was going for generators in hospitals to help save lives. And yet Hamas, at gunpoint, stole a large proportion of that fuel and we presume that it was diverted to their military machine." "President Biden has addressed this issue publicly. He said if supplies that are meant for the people of Gaza to alleviate human suffering are in fact stolen by Hamas, there must be consequences. We have no interest in more fuel going to the Hamas military machine....Fuel doesn't go in because it will be stolen by Hamas and it will be used by them to power rockets that are fired into Israel to kill our people."