However some Gazans who’ve made or tried the journey in current days have described being fired at from the course of Israeli tanks, regardless of the promise of secure passage, whereas others stated that they had seen our bodies, or components of our bodies, scattered across the highway. The United Nations is conscious of such experiences however has not recognized who was accountable, stated one U.N. official who requested to not be recognized due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Requested about experiences of Israeli tanks firing at refugees, the Israeli army stated in an announcement that it had been focusing on Hamas all through Gaza. It stated its assaults on army targets have been carried out below worldwide regulation, together with taking “possible precautions to mitigate civilian casualties.”
On Sunday, Anas Al Kourd, a paramedic at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis, drove south together with his cousin, whose legs had been amputated after she was wounded within the struggle, and others, together with 4 kids. Theirs was the one automobile in sight. Round them, everybody held their fingers up in a gesture of give up as they walked, carrying little however white flags, he stated.
As they approached Kuwait Sq., a significant intersection in Gaza Metropolis, they got here below fireplace, forcing them to retreat, he stated. Two or 3 times they tried to maneuver ahead, solely to have to show round once more due to incoming fireplace.
Once they lastly made it to the sq., he stated, he might see greater than 50 Israeli tanks close by, sitting the place an olive grove was. He stated he waved the blanket masking his cousin rather than a white flag, whereas a few of his companions, who’re twin residents, waved their crimson German passports.
Mr. Al Kourd had coated a couple of third of the remaining distance to the center zone of Gaza, bumping over splintered bushes and concrete blocks, when he stated they have been fired on once more. He was driving at “mad velocity” to flee, he stated, when a missile or bomb from a warplane hit close by. Nobody was struck, however their automobile hit a crater within the highway and went flying, he stated.
“I don’t know the way we survived,” he stated a day later, having made it to the center zone of the Gaza Strip. His account couldn’t be independently confirmed.
