This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 15th of November,

these are the main headlines.

Washington backs up what Israel has long claimed that Hamas is using hospitals as

command centers and weapons dumps. So where does that leave the hundreds of

patients and people sheltering in them? The British Prime Minister faces a stinging tirade from a sacked minister and Sri Lanka Supreme Court finds the former president partially responsible for the country's economic collapse.

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For several weeks now Israel has said many of the hospitals in Gaza have a dual function.

Above ground they're treating patients but underneath in a Warren of tunnels

they are Hamas command centers and weapon stores. It's something Hamas has

consistently denied, but now the United States says it has intelligence to

support those Israeli claims. Sabrina Singh is the Pentagon's deputy spokesperson.

They have tunnels underneath these hospitals and so Hamas and PIG

members operate a command and control node from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, they have weapons

stored there, and are prepared to respond to an Israeli military operation against the facility.

With a reference to P.I.J. there stands for Palestinian Islamic jihad, another

militant group in Gaza.

The US national security spokesman, John Kirby, has said that using the Al-Shifa Hospital in this way was a war crime, but it did not

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