Israel provides evidence of Hamas using ambulances

The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service released further evidence of the Hamas’s use of ambulances to carry out its operations, including footage from an intercepted phone call and the interrogations of terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre, Report informs referring to The Times of Israel.

In the call intercepted and released by the military, an apparent operative in the terror group can be heard speaking to a Gazan man, saying he “can leave with any ambulance” he wants.

The Gazan man offers to send him an ambulance if he wants one, to which the Hamas operative assures him that “there are ambulances that go and come back. I can go with any ambulance.”

The context of the call was not clear.

The Shin Bet also released excerpts from the interrogation of several Hamas members who took part in the October 7 onslaught and were captured, describing the group’s exploitation of medical and civilian infrastructure.

“Al-Qassam has its own ambulances, some of which are located on the military base. The appearance of the ambulances is similar to the civilian ambulances so that they will not arouse suspicion or be bombed by Israel,” said one Hamas terrorist.

Another Hamas terrorist said that “during combat, the ambulances are used, among other things, to evacuate fighters, commanders and operatives. They also transport food, cargo and weapons in them because that is the safest way to transport them.”

One terrorist said the use of ambulances was useful to transport “important people” such as commanders because “the Jews don’t attack ambulances.”

An example of the misuse of ambulances was uncovered when the IDF claimed that it struck an ambulance that it said was identified as being used by a Hamas cell, close to a battle zone. Hospital directors of three hospitals claimed that strikes hit just as staff were trying to evacuate wounded to the south.

Additionally, a senior Biden administration accused Hamas of trying to sneak its fighters out of Gaza in ambulances that evacuated dozens of wounded Palestinians to Egypt earlier last week.