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Senior Hamas figure: Qatar sending medicine to Gaza, some will go to the hostages
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan speaks during a rally organized by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, in a southern suburb of Beirut, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
CAIRO — A Hamas official thanks Qatar for sending medicine to the Gaza Strip “in light of the many risks that threaten the lives of Palestinians.”
“Some medicine will be used to treat Israeli prisoners,” Osama Hamdan, a Lebanon-based Hamas leader, tells a news conference in Beirut.
Israel had announced yesterday that it had made an arrangement with Qatar that will allow the delivery of medicines to hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that rules the Strip.
Hamdan says the priority is the citizens of Gaza.
“First, we believe our people are more deserving and in need of medicine, and secondly, there are security issues this presents.”
