Gaza’s Health Ministry, al-Shifa Hospital’s director, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that as many as 15 people were killed and 60 others injured on Saturday, when the regime targeted the five-vehicle ambulance convoy, hitting one of them that was carrying casualties from Gaza City to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
The regime has claimed, without providing any evidence, that the ambulances were carrying Hamas fighters.
The Palestinian resistance movement has strongly rejected the allegation, while Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, director of al-Shifa Hospital, said the wounded people, who were being evacuated had their names listed at Rafah for permission to enter Egypt.
Reacting to the atrocity, UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a post on X social media platform that he is “horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy.”
He added, “Now, for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children and women, have been besieged, denied aid, killed, and bombed out of their homes This must stop.”
The World Health Organization, for its part, said it condemned the strike, which was described by the MSF as “horrendous,” and “a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence.”
The Zionist regime has been bombing Gaza since October 7, when the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm in the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified crimes against Palestinians.
The Israeli war on Gaza has so far killed at least 9,488 Palestinians, including nearly 3,900 children and 2,509 women. Over 24,160 Palestinians have also been wounded.
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