@Thomas Sheridan: So it’s the people of Gaza’s fault Israel fired on aid vehicles which had their headlights and emergency lights on killing lots of innocent aid workers. Then the same Israel lied and said these vehicles approached out of nowhere and no lights on? Are you fing serious?

@Ger Whelan: I didn’t say that. Please get a grown-up to read it to you slowly.

@Eoghan O Sullivan: Murderous dregs of humanity killing women, kids, medics. War criminals. Silence. But hey, spit at one of these vile ghouls in protest and the Stasi are on you.

@Thomas Sheridan: I did read it. I would guess the people of Gaza and the world don’t EXPECT Israel to open fire on what were clearly aid vehicles and slaughter the crew and then lie about it. You clearly EXPECT different things though

@Ger Whelan: the government of Israel are guilty of war crimes, same as the government of Gaza. Israel is going nowhere so unless the people of Gaza get rid of Hamas then there will be no hope as the only aim of Hamas is to attack and wipe out Israel. The only hope the people of Gaza have is to have the PA take over the running of it, rather than Iran via Hamas

@Ger Whelan: I absolutely don’t condone the killing of medical aid workers, just to make it clearer for you.
Nor do I condone the preplanned murder of young people at a music festival and the kidnapping of many more – some of whom are still held in captivity in hamass in their rat burrows. By your silence on this, I take it you are OK with it.
You can bet that the Palestinian terrorists are celebrating the killing of the medics and no-one else is because this is the martyrdom and publicity the feed on and why they don’t want peace.

@Thomas Sheridan: There’s some truth in what you’re saying, insofar as people entrenched in conflicts like this are stuck in a cycle of violence. However, there are two factions of extremists in this.The Isreali government are led by far right supremacists, like Ben Givr and Smotrich, who follow the doctrine of Kahnism. It’s every bit as repulsive in its aims as Hamas and their aims. And let’s not forget Benni the butcher. A man who led a march, headed by a coffin with the name of then Isreali PM Rabin on it.. spoke how he was a traitor for signing the Oslo Accord, which saw him assinated. Not to mention, Hamas is a creation of the Israeli government. You seem willfully ignorant of these facts. This government is guilty of the most heinous war crimes, stop excusing them.. no more “But”.

@Eoghan O Sullivan: Back with the usual nonsense I see. I couldn’t care less what happened to those “medics” because at least two of them took part in the massacre in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7th according to the identification of the bodies that were discovered. Hamas has infiltrated and runs the Red Crescent in Gaza just like every other part of the bureaucracy within the enclave. There needs to be a full investigation into the identities of all of the “medics” because they chose not to coordinate their movements with the IDF patrols within the area. If you don’t do that, you run the risk of getting shot at because this is a conflict zone and soldiers don’t have time to second guess. I stand by my claim that Israel has not committed any war crimes in Gaza because they simply haven’t.

@William Jennings: how embarrassing

@William Jennings: Are you some sort of bot or AI generated account? No human or even the Israelis themselves have come out with that sort of twisted logic regarding this incident.
So according to YOU, 2 of them were hamas? Even if that was correct, then that justifies the murder and cover up of the other 13?
Did they “know” beforehand that there were 2 hamas in the convoy and just carried on with their “shoot to kill anything that moves policy” anyway?
With the banning of the worlds media we’ll never know the true extent of Israeli war crimes. This is just the tip of the iceberg where they happened to be caught out.
And just as a note, the convoy was not in an Israeli evacuation zone. An evacuation zone announcement of the area was announced an hour after the incident.
And you call for an investigation in to the identities of the medics, but not in to the israeli soldiers or commanders who carried out these war crimes – how typical. of you.
MSF, UN, World Central Kitchens and many other agencies have had their people killed in recent weeks. But William couldn’t care less what happened to them (or the people of Gaza/West Bank). Embarrassing is an understatement.

@William Jennings: Please provide reliable, independent sources for your claims. No IDF or Israeli news outlets.

@Eoin .h: Factual information is embarrassing to you? It’s not my problem if you’re offended buddy. You’ve offered no coherent rebuttal to the points I made. Is that because you know I’m right?

@Eugene Burns: I’d ask you the same question Eugene since you continually regurgitate Hamas propaganda. Why didn’t the “medics” coordinate their movements with the IDF patrol in the area? It makes no sense unless you had something to hide. We know that two of the medics were members of Hamas because they recorded themselves on GoPro cameras massacring people and burning buildings in Kibbutz Nir Oz. As I said above, this is a conflict zone. The IDF has to deal with the fact that Hamas dresses up in civilian clothing before initiating surprise attacks on soldiers. If you choose to move in the nighttime without prior warning and suddenly drive towards an IDF patrol, you run the risk of getting shot. If journalists have been banned, how is Al-Jazeera able to report from inside of Gaza then?

@William Jennings: I see that you didn’t provide any sources for your claims. In the meantime even the IDF have admitted that they’re initial version of the story was incorrect. The vehicles were clearly marked and used lights and flashing lights. Even if two of the killed medics did have Hamas connectin, of which you have provided no evidence, it doesn’t justify the attack on ambulances. The Geneva convention is clear. Ambulances must not be attacked. There might be an exception when ambulances engage in acts of war, however that was not the case here. This was murder for the sake of it. A war crime by some trigger happy ISF soldiers. Zero evidence that these medics were hostile or a posing a threat. Defending this war crime is disgusting.

@Eugene Burns: Why would Israel let in a media organisation that is funded by Qatar and has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? Maybe because they aren’t actually stopping journalists from reporting and this is just more propagandistic nonsense. You bring up World Central Kitchen, so let’s talk about that. The convoy of trucks were ordered no to leave by the IDF in the nighttime because the cover of darkness would stop their drones from identifying the trucks. The WCK convoy ignored this and left at 11pm to move their supplies. The IDF offered to issue WCK with IR strobe patterns which would allow their drones to pick up and identify whether the trucks were carrying aid or were carrying weapons for Hamas. WCK declined this as well and the drones had no choice but to strike suspicious trucks.

@Dereck: I have. They literally filmed themselves on GoPro cameras massacring people in Kibbutz Nir Oz! What’s so hard about that to understand? By choosing to put known members of Hamas in their ambulances, they opened themselves up to being attacked. The Geneva Convention is clear that if the ambulance is being used for non-medical purposes, such as transporting combatants to engage in military action, it loses this protection and can be targeted. None of this would have happened if this was a fair war where Hamas didn’t use civilian infrastructure and vehicles as shields of immunity but we know this is clearly not the case. Once again, the ambulances did not coordinate their movements with the IDF patrol in the area. Why wouldn’t you do that unless you had something to hide?

@William Jennings: Yes William. Thank you for all those “facts”, courtesy of the IDF.

@William Jennings: You did not provide any evidence. What you did is, you claimed that there is a video out there. That’s not evidence. Regarding the Geneva convention: You are misquoting it. For an ambulance to loose its protection it must be clearly identified as being misused. That was not the case. The key wording is “clear and intentional misuse”. Not even the IDF are claiming that’s the case here. That the ambulance may have operated without prior coordination with the IDF does not give them the right to shoot without warning. There are reports out there that some of the killed medics were found with their hands tied behind their backs. If that turns out to be true will you still claim that there was no war crime committed here?

@Dereck: You can literally look up and watch the videos of Hamas breaking into Kibbutz Nir Oz and massacring hundreds of innocent people. Hamas posted the videos themselves. The IDF told the vehicle to stop and they didn’t. They also didn’t coordinate their movements with the IDF as I told you above. This is a recipe for disaster, plain and simple. Even if we go off your statement that the IDF shot at the ambulances without knowing that Hamas had taken control of them, we still know that they had identified and were tracking the movements of those two terrorists earlier in the day and had found out that they boarded the ambulances. How could you possibly expect the IDF to know whether they were full of other armed Hamas militants or not? The safety of their soldiers will always come first.

@Eugene Burns: You’ve offered no answer to any of the points I made. Everything I said is factual and you know it. The reason that you can’t actually provide any evidence for your own claims is because you simply regurgitate Hamas talking points which contradict themselves.

@William Jennings: When you claim that two of the killed medics were involved in the attack on the Kibuz it’s up to you to provide evidence. Not up to me to search for it. Article 35 Geneva convention states that ambiguities, regarding whether an ambulance is used for military purposes, should be resolved cautiously to avoid indiscriminate attacks on protected medical vehicles.
In this case it turned out that the ambulance wasn’t used for military purposes. There are also discrepancies between the names of the victims as reported by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and those released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). So there’s even reason to believe that the IDF acted on incorrect information or that they just made up the story about having tracked terrorists to the ambulance.

@William Jennings: No evidence on the video that the IDF asked the ambulance to stop. Couldn’t find anything else that supports that claim either. But an ever changing story by the IDF as soon as hey’re caught lying. Also UN reports of victims in mass graves with their hands tied behind their backs. So far a lot points towards either a big c.ck up by the IDF that they’re trying to cover up or some trigger happy soldiers who shoot at ambulances for a laugh. And some people actually defend this. Disgusting.