GAZA: Israel's military admitted on Saturday it had fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after identifying them as "suspicious vehicles", with Hamas condemning it as a "war crime" that killed at least one person. The incident took place last Sunday in the Tal Al Sultan neighbourhood in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border.
The day after the incident, Gaza's civil defence agency said in a statement that it had not heard from a team of six rescuers from Tal Al Sultan who had been urgently dispatched to respond to deaths and injuries. On Friday, it reported finding the body of the team leader and the rescue vehicles -- an ambulance and a firefighting vehicle -- and said a vehicle from the Palestine Red Crescent Society was also "reduced to a pile of scrap metal". Hamas spokesman Basem Naim accused Israel of carrying out "a deliberate and brutal massacre against Civil Defence and Palestinian Red Crescent teams in the city of Rafah". — AFP
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