Posted on 01/26/2009 4:16:35 AM PST by knighthawk
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas - and not Israel - was the reason ambulances could not reach victims, a Gaza ambulance driver told the Sydney Morning Herald. He said that Hamas terrorists tried to hijack an entire fleet of Al-Quds ambulances during Operation Cast Lead.
Foreign media quoted Hamas officials and Gaza Arabs several times during the war that Israel blocked ambulances from reaching dying victims, but Mohammed Shriteh, a 30-year-old driver for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, told the Australian newspaper Monday that the Israel Defense Forces actually worked with the Red Crescent.
"We would co-ordinate with the Israelis before we pick up patients, because they have all our names, and our IDs, so they would not shoot at us," he told Herald reporter Jason Koutsoukis.
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The article said — “(IsraelNN.com) Hamas - and not Israel - was the reason ambulances could not reach victims, a Gaza ambulance driver told the Sydney Morning Herald. He said that Hamas terrorists tried to hijack an entire fleet of Al-Quds ambulances during Operation Cast Lead.”
Yeah..., that’s real typical of the Hamas (and the Fatah, too) to use ambulances to transport weapons instead of injured people. So, so typical (and *for real* too)...
Why does the IDF actually collaborate with the Red Crescent? Is it because they show a humane spirit to the injured? Hamas likes to hijack ambos.
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