The Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Monday denounced the use of an aid truck by Israeli forces during the operation to recover four prisoners in the Gaza Strip two days ago, considering it a war crime that could endanger the safety of relief workers.
The association warned of the danger of the occupation forces using a humanitarian aid truck last Saturday to infiltrate the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip and commit a massacre against civilians that led to the death of 274 martyrs – including 64 children and 57 women – in addition to the injury of 700 others, according to the latest official statistics.
She stressed that the occupation forces disguising themselves inside an aid truck is a war crime against civilians and a clear violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the crime of treachery.
She explained that the occupation forces betrayed the people and disguised themselves with the cover of aid that civilians longed for in light of their suffering from dangerous levels of food insecurity.
The association also called on the international community to hold the occupation authorities accountable for this war crime and deter them from continuing to commit more massacres against civilians, in addition to providing urgent protection to civilians and to workers in the field of humanitarian and medical work in accordance with international humanitarian law.
International confirmation
Last Saturday, the occupation forces committed a massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds of martyrs and wounded after a violent artillery and air bombardment targeted the Nuseirat camp in Gaza, coinciding with a military operation to recover detainees, which the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed also led to the killing of 3 other detainees.
While local Palestinian sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrated the Nuseirat camp via a similar truck used to transport humanitarian aid, the Israeli army claimed that this was not true.
For her part, the United Nations Rapporteur in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, confirmed that Israeli and foreign soldiers hid inside an aid truck to enter Nuseirat, amid accusations that the American temporary pier designated for delivering aid was also used, which Washington denied.
Since last October 7, the occupation has launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 121,000 martyrs and wounded – most of them children and women – and about 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.