“A couple of minutes afterwards, further autos superior suspiciously towards the troops” who “responded by firing towards the suspicious autos”, it stated, including that a number of “terrorists” have been killed.
The army didn’t say whether or not there was fireplace coming from the autos.
“Among the suspicious autos… have been ambulances and fireplace vans,” the army assertion stated, citing “an preliminary inquiry” of the incident.
It condemned “the repeated use” by “terrorist organisations within the Gaza Strip of ambulances for terrorist functions”.
The day after the incident, Gaza’s civil defence company stated in a press release that it had not heard from a crew of six rescuers from Tal al-Sultan who had been urgently dispatched to answer deaths and accidents.
On Friday, the company reported discovering the physique of the crew chief in addition to the rescue autos, an ambulance and a fireplace engine, and stated a car from the Palestine Crimson Crescent Society was additionally “lowered to a pile of scrap steel”.
“The focused killing of rescue staff, who’re protected beneath worldwide humanitarian regulation, constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and a warfare crime,” stated Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim.
Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, stated that since March 18, Israeli air strikes have hit “densely populated areas”, with “sufferers killed of their hospital beds. Ambulances shot at. First responders killed.”
The well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza stated on Saturday that no less than 921 individuals have been killed within the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed its large-scale strikes.
