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

The United States said it expects “all parties on the ground” in Gaza to comply with international humanitarian law, but it refused to confirm whether it was carrying out its own evaluation of the murder by the 15 Israeli army. People – paramedics, civil defense workers and the United Nations official.

When asked about the killings, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tami Bruce said: “Everything is happening in Gaza because of Hamas.”

The United Nations Humanitarian Agency said that five ambulances, a truck and a United Nations fire truck were shocked “one by one” on March 23 and that 15 bodies, including paramedics who are still wearing military uniforms, were assembled and buried in a mass grave.

The Israeli army said that its forces fired vehicles “advanced” without the headlights or emergency signals and that one of the militants in Hamas and other militants who were killed, but he did not provide any comment on the bodies collected and buried in the sand.

International humanitarian law prohibits targeting civilians and calls for specific protection for medical workers.

The United States, the largest arms resource in Israel, is also binding on its own laws prohibiting its weapons used by foreign armies to violate humanitarian law.

Jonathan Whital, head of the United Nations Humanitarian Agency in Gaza, said the mass grave was “marked” with an emergency light from an ambulance in the strike.

He said in a video on X: “It is absolute horror what happened here,” adding that “health care workers should not be a target.”

Israel renewed its air and land campaign in Gaza on March 18 after negotiations on the ceasefire deal with Hamas stopped.

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

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 grooves were taken.

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