Gaza: Israel denies targeting Red Cross medics

加沙:以色列否认针对红十字会医护人员

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2025-04-01

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The Israeli military has sought to defend its actions in Gaza a week ago when its troops fired upon a convoy of vehicles, killing fifteen paramedics, civil defence workers and a UN worker. An Israeli spokesman said there had been no random shooting and militants had been targeted. We hear from Olga Cherevko of the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza. Also, a woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Myanmar's capital, four days after a huge earthquake that left thousands dead. And the Great Gatsby turns a hundred - why does it still speak to us today? (Photo: Palestinians gather around a body as they mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Cross, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)
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  • Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin today in Gaza and an attack that happened last week on the 23rd of March,

  • but one whose grim details are only now coming to light.

  • But as ever in this war, they are strongly contested.

  • What we do know is that on the 30th of March, Sunday,

  • a team from the UN's Humanitarian Agency was finally able to recover the bodies of a group of aid workers who'd been buried in the sandy dunes of southern Gaza,

  • together with the mangled wreckage of their ambulances, a firetruck and another vehicle.

  • In total, the UN says it retrieved the bodies of 15 people, eight of them paramedics with the Palestinian Red Crescent,

  • seven of them civil defence workers, one of them an employee of the UN.

  • All of them, says the UN, shot when Israeli troops fired on their convoy as it tried to reach a group of injured people.

  • Well, in a moment we'll hear from the UN in Gaza.

  • But here's what the Israeli government has had to say today.

  • This is Foreign Minister Gideon Sahr speaking at a news briefing in Jerusalem.

  • The IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance.

  • Last Sunday, several uncoordinated vehicles were identified,

  • advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals.

  • IDF troops then opened fire at suspected vehicles.

  • Following an initial assessment,

  • it was determined that the forces had eliminated a Hamas military tourist, Mohammad Amin Ibrahim Shubaki,