US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a news conference following meetings at the Danish Foreign Ministry, Eigtved's Warehouse, in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 17, 2021. Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas operating in Gaza office building hit by airstrike over the weekend.
Blinken says he has asked Israel for justification for the strike.
Blinken spoke at a news conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as pressure is increasing on the Biden administration to ask for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel destroyed a building housing the Al Jazeera, The Associated Press and other media, and claimed that Hamas used the building for a military intelligence office.
"Shortly after the strike we did request additional details regarding the justification for it," Blinken said. He declined to discuss specific intelligence, saying he "will leave it to others to characterize if any information has been shared and our assessment that information."
But he said, "I have not seen any information provided."
