Hamas chief warns Israel if more ventilators not brought to Gaza, ‘we’ll take them by force’

The head of the Hamas terror group in Gaza is warning Israel if more ventilators for coronavirus patients are not brought into the Palestinian enclave then it will “take them by force.”

“If ventilators are not brought into [Gaza], we’ll take them by force from Israel and stop the breathing of 6 million Israelis,” Hebrew media reports quote Yahya Sinwar saying.

There have only been a handful of confirmed COVID-19 cases so far in Gaza, but a World Health Organization official warned earlier today that 80 to 90 percent of the ventilators in the Strip and the West Bank are already in use.

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