The Palestine Red Crescent Society has published a video showing the total wreckage of the ambulance that was sent to rescue six-year-old Hind Rajab 12 days ago.
Hind’s body was found today, dead in the car she was in with her family who were killed by Israeli tank fire on January 30.
The two medics who were dispatched, Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, were also killed.
Palestinian medics react after several members of the Palestinian Red Crescent were killed when an Israeli strike hit an ambulance, according to the Red Crescent, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, January 10. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
Palestinian medics react after several members of the Palestinian Red Crescent were killed when an Israeli strike hit an ambulance, according to the Red Crescent, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
Four members of the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crews and two patients 🚑were killled due to the targeting by Israel of an ambulance vehicle on Salah al-Din Street at the entrance of Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared a harrowing video on social media showing the terrifying moments when paramedics and ambulances came under sustained Israeli bombardment at the Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.
One volunteer paramedic was injured and two ambulances were destroyed in the attack last Friday.
@claude_cahun Considering the favt that #Hamas literally abuses #Gaza's population as #HumanShields and literally steals resources from #Hospitals and builds Command Posts below them, that's on them.
Why else do you think the #USNS Mercy or any other #HospitalShip and even #Ambulances of military forces carry no weapons whatsoever?
The new models will continue with the BC’s transition away from on-call shifts & toward more FT positions, with the goal of bettering conditions for paramedics & improving access to #ambulances in areas that have historically been under-served.
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Israel has carried out at least 250 attacks on medical staff and health facilities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7, the health ministry says.
In Gaza:
More than 37 medical staff killed in Israeli attacks
69 attacks on health facilities
24 attacks on ambulances
7 hospitals out of commission
Children sit in the back of an ambulance at Shifa Hospital after an Israeli air strike hit the nearby Al-Ahli Hospital, according to Gaza Health Ministry in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
#Israeli PM #BenjaminNetanyahu & #BennyGantz, leader of the opposition #NationalUnity party, reached an agreement Wed to form a unity govt. The 2 ldrs said the new govt would pursue only bills or decisions concerning the #conflict, which has prompted Israel to mass troops near the Gaza Strip & call up #reservists ahead of an offensive against #Hamas militants.
The #WorldHealthOrganization#WHO said Tues evening that it had documented 22 attacks by Israeli forces on #MedicalCenters & ambulances that killed 6 people. It wasn’t clear whether any of the #UN workers were included in that figure. On Wednesday, the #Palestine#RedCrescentSociety#PRCS, part of the International Federation of #RedCross & RedCrescent Societies, said its #ambulances have been targeted by Israeli strikes. 1 strike killed 3 #medics, it said, & another strike killed another medic.