US says international humanitarian law should be observed in Gaza

The United States said it expects “all on -site countries” in Gaza to comply with international humanitarian law, but declined to confirm whether he carried out his own assessment in the murder of Israeli military from 15 People – paramedics, civil defense workers and UN employee.

Asked about the murders, the State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce replied: “Every thing that happens in Gaza is happening because of Hamas.”

The UN Humanitarian Agency said five ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle were hit “one by one” on March 23 and that 15 bodies, including paramedics, still in their uniforms, were collected and buried in a mass grave.

The Israeli military said his troops fired at vehicles, “adventing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals, and that Hamas’s operational and other fighters were among the killed, but this did not offer a comment on the accounts for collected and buried bodies.

International humanitarian law prohibits the direction of civilians and calls for a specific protection of medical staff.

The United States, the largest arms supplier in Israel, is also bound by its own laws, banning its weapons used by foreign military in violation of humanitarian law.

Jonathan Whital, the head of the UN Humanitarian Agency in Gaza, said the mass grave was “marked” with an emergency light from one of the ambulances hit by the strike.

“This is an absolute horror that happened here,” he said in a video of X, adding that “health workers should never be a goal.”

Israel has renewed its campaign for air and ground in Gaza on March 18 after negotiations for a Hamas fire stop stopped.

Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the territory.

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

More than 50,350 people were killed in Gaza during the ensuing war, according to the health ministry.