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Red Cross condemns attack on aid convoy in Gaza City

MEMO | November 8, 2023

Humanitarian aid convoy came under attack in Gaza yesterday, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Condemning the strike, the ICRC said it was “deeply troubled that its humanitarian convoy in Gaza City came under fire on Tuesday. The ICRC reminds the parties of their obligation under international humanitarian law to respect and protect humanitarian workers at all times.”

The convoy of five trucks and two ICRC vehicles was carrying lifesaving medical supplies to health facilities, including to Al-Quds Hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, when it was hit. Two trucks were damaged, and a driver was lightly wounded.

“These are not the conditions under which humanitarian personnel can work,” said William Schomburg, the head of the ICRC delegation in Gaza. “We are here to bring urgent assistance to civilians in need. Ensuring that vital assistance can reach medical facilities is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law.”

After the incident the convoy altered its route and reached Al-Shifa hospital where it delivered the medical supplies. Afterward, the ICRC convoy accompanied six ambulances with critically wounded patients to the Rafah crossing.

Israel has intensified its bombing campaign in the northern Gaza Strip and has called on all civilians to leave, saying that those who remain will be assumed to be fighters and therefore targeted. This is in spite of the fact that tens of thousands do not have the means or ability to leave the area and thousands are working as emergency workers supporting their local community, including at Al-Shifa Hospital.

November 8, 2023 - Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, War Crimes | , , ,

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  1. Unlike today’s system of lightening fast global communication. genocide committed before WWII by the Nazis didn’t get published. For instance, Hitler’s T4 euthanasia program was kept secret for two years to prevent a backlash by relatives of those Germans the Nazi doctors were euthanizing. With no internal pressure, Hitler’s government got away with eliminating thousands of chronically ill and elderly Germans. What the Nazis called “useless eaters”. But because of today’s world wide web, atrocities like that which Hamas inflicted on Israel on Oct. 7th, and the outright genocide occurring in the Gaza Strip by the hand of the Netanyahu government with support from the Biden administration, are seen by potentially billions of people around the world! And millions of them are outraged and doing something to stop it! Biden’s reaction and that of his fascist advisors, is already backfiring because of news outlets such as Aletho.

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    Thomas Lee Simpson's avatar Comment by Thomas Lee Simpson | November 8, 2023 | Reply

  2. dear icrc, addressing us and/or isr regarding
    respecting anything but volence is a waste.

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    5 dancing shlomos's avatar Comment by 5 dancing shlomos | November 10, 2023 | Reply

  3. Leaders of the genocidal regime have no conscience. Let THEM stew/boil in their own excrement.

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