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The exchange came amid reports of rising tensions between Palestinian civilians and Hamas.

An elderly Gaza woman accused Hamas of hoarding humanitarian aid meant for Palestinian civilians during a television news interview, saying that the terrorists "can shoot me," to the apparent shock of the Al Jazeera journalist conducting the interview.

The Wednesday exchange was preserved by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute and circulated, in truncated form, by Israeli journalist Roi Kais on social media.

"The situation is difficult. No aid is coming in," the journalist said during the interview outside a hospital in the south Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to English subtitles added to the clip.

The unidentified woman quickly disputed the notion, saying that aid is making it to Gaza, but is snatched up before it can be broadly distributed.
"All the aid goes to [the tunnels] underground," she said, referring to the winding subterranean network of Hamas strongholds known as the Gaza Metro. "It does not reach all the people."

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