“A couple of minutes afterwards, extra automobiles superior suspiciously towards the troops” who “responded by firing towards the suspicious automobiles”, it mentioned, including that a number of “terrorists” have been killed.
The army didn’t say whether or not there was fireplace coming from the automobiles.
“A few of the suspicious automobiles… have been ambulances and fireplace vans,” the army assertion mentioned, 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 mentioned in a press release that it had not heard from a group 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 group chief in addition to the rescue automobiles, an ambulance and a hearth engine, and mentioned a car from the Palestine Crimson Crescent Society was additionally “decreased to a pile of scrap steel”.
“The focused killing of rescue employees, who’re protected below worldwide humanitarian legislation, constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and a warfare crime,” mentioned Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim.
Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, mentioned 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 mentioned on Saturday that at the least 921 folks have been killed within the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed its large-scale strikes.
