The United States says that international humanitarian law should be followed in Gaza

The United States has declared that it expects “all parties on the ground” to Gaza complying with international humanitarian law, but refused to confirm whether it was carrying out its own assessment by the 15-year Israeli army PEOPLE – Paramedical paramedics, civil defense workers and a United Nations official.

Asked about the killings, the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, said: “Everything that happens in Gaza occurs because of Hamas.”

The United Nations humanitarian agency declared five ambulances, a fire truck and a United Nations vehicle “one by one” March 23 and that 15 bodies, including paramedical paramedics in their uniforms, had been gathered and buried in a mass.

The Israeli army said that its troops had fired on vehicles “advancing with suspicion” without headlights or emergency signals and that a Hamas agent and other activists were one of the people killed, but it did not comment on the accounts of bodies gathered and buried in the sand.

International humanitarian law prohibits the targeting of civilians and calls for specific protections for medical staff.

The United States, the largest supplier of weapons in Israel, is also linked by its own laws prohibiting its weapons used by foreign soldiers in humanitarian law.

Jonathan Whittall, the head of the UN humanitarian agency in Gaza, said that the mass tomb had been “marked” with an emergency light from one of the ambulances affected in the strike.

“It is an absolute horror what happened here,” he said in a video on X, adding that “health workers should never be a target”.

Israel has renewed its air and land campaign in Gaza on March 18 after negotiations on a cease-fire contract with Hamas.

Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas in the territory.

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

According to the Ministry of Health, more than 50,350 people were killed in Gaza during the war that followed.