2023-11-04 04:17:30
– UN condemns Israeli strike in Gaza once morest ambulance
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was “horrified” by the bombing of an ambulance which left fifteen people dead on Friday in Gaza.
Published today at 5:17 a.m.
Antonio Guterres.
AFP
The UN condemned the bombing of an ambulance which killed fifteen people on Friday in Gaza, a strike confirmed by the Israeli army which declared having targeted members of Hamas using the vehicle, which the Palestinian Islamist organization denied . “I am horrified,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement, adding: “The images of the bodies strewn in the street outside the hospital are heartbreaking.”
“The convoy consisted of five ambulances,” including one from the Hamas Ministry of Health and one from the Red Crescent, the Red Crescent said in a statement, according to which the bombing occurred at a distance of two meters from the entrance to al-Chifa hospital, the largest in Gaza. A second ambulance was targeted “regarding a kilometer from the hospital” and injuries were noted, added the humanitarian organization.
Israeli aircraft “struck an ambulance that was identified by the forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell near their position in the combat zone,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
15 dead and 10 injured, according to Hamas
Israel’s claims “regarding the presence of fighters inside the targeted ambulances are false, and they are new lies added to the constant lies (…) used to justify its crimes,” Hamas denied in a press release published on Telegram. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, the strike left 15 dead and 60 injured.
“Horrified”
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “deeply shocked”, declaring on X that “patients, caregivers, establishments and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always”. The UN humanitarian coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings, said she was “alarmed” regarding X, because the strike targeted “patients who were going to be evacuated to be safe”.
Early Saturday, Hamas also claimed that 20 people were killed and dozens of others injured in an attack “targeting” a school transformed into a makeshift camp for displaced people in the al-Saftaoui area, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Since Wednesday, dozens of wounded Palestinians have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly bombarded by Israel since the Hamas attack on its soil on October 7, to Egypt. Since the start of the war on October 7, with the Hamas attack on Israeli soil, more than 1,400 people, mainly civilians, have been killed according to local authorities. Incessant Israeli bombardments have left more than 9,200 dead, including 3,826 children, in Gaza according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
On October 27, the Israeli army accused Hamas of “waging war from hospitals” in the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist movement categorically denied.
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