Red Crescent says 15 killed in attack on Gaza ambulance outside Al-Shifa hospital
The Israeli military has confirmed it struck an ambulance that it says was being used by Hamas operatives.
It did not say where the air strike took place.
"An IDF aircraft struck an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone," it said in a statement.
It said a number of Hamas fighters had been killed and accused Hamas of transferring militants and weapons in ambulances, but has not yet supplied evidence of this.
"We emphasise that this area is a battle zone. Civilians in the area are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southwards for their own safety," it added.
Earlier, the Hamas-run health ministry said 13 people were killed in a blast outside Al-Shifa.
In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), the Palestinian Red Crescent said "the deliberate targeting of medical teams constitutes a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions, a war crime".
one of which is very graphic - and established that they were filmed outside the hospital and were uploaded on Friday afternoon.
In one video, people were filmed lying in pools of blood in the road next to vehicles - some were severely injured and some were not moving.
There is no crater visible in the footage we've seen so far, and no debris or shrapnel visible. There's damage to the front of an ambulance and some cars on the road have smashed windows.
In its statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent said the convoy was struck twice on its way to the Al-Shifa hospital - once 1km (0.62 miles) away and a second time outside the hospital gate, where it said it had arrived to unload patients.
Israel has warned people to move to the south of the Gaza Strip and hundreds of thousands have left Gaza City and northern areas. But many thousands remain in northern Gaza.
Continued Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel had told Gazans to go, as well as overcrowded conditions there have prompted some Palestinians to return to their homes in northern Gaza,
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
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