Israel's army admitted to firing on convoys of marked medical ambulances that carried assistance in the Rafah area in the south of the Gaza Strip. As a consequence of the fire, 15 rescue workers were killed who worked as part of the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance.
In the area of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, marked medical vehicles were fired on, including doctors and paramedics. Israel's army confessed to the assault, which besides emphasizes that the fire was the consequence of an error. However, before Israel's forces admitted to the mistake, they went on claiming that the ambulances were not visible adequate and that their passage had not been agreed with the army.
In the end, Israel confessed to shooting up medics. The attack killed 15 people, who were helping victims in the fighting in Gaza. The medical convoy included the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, but among them was the UN car and the Gazan civilian defence fire truck. The army admitted that the soldiers opened fire on unarmed people.
Meanwhile, the “New York Times” published on a mobile telephone video found on 1 of the dead shows that vehicles on the road in the convoy had lights on and were clearly marked. It is not heard that the beginning of fire by soldiers will precede their warnings. The five-minute recording shows, among others, the medical lifeguard Refat Radwan praying, after which the voices of soldiers approaching the vehicles are heard.
A typical of the Israeli forces, as quoted on Saturday evening by the Times of Israel portal, presented a series of events, saying that on 23 March around 4.30 p.m. soldiers shot up a car containing 3 Hamas members; 1 of them was killed and 2 others were captured. The car was left on the side of the road. erstwhile an ambulance convoy stopped close the vehicle at about 6 a.m., soldiers opened fire on them.
The only survivor of this attack was the medical lifeguard Munther Abed confirmed in a conversation with the BBC that the ambulances had lights on and were marked. He denied the information given by Israel’s forces that medical workers had any connection to Hamas.
The war in the Gaza Strip broke out after the Hamas attack on confederate Israel on 7 October 2023. any 1,200 people were killed and 251 were kidnapped. The Israeli army believes that 24 hostages stay in captivity and 35 more are being held. Since the beginning of the conflict, according to the Palestinian authorities, over 50,000 people have died in Gaza.
Source: PAP
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