Military spokesman Brigadier Common Effie Defrin stated in a televised assertion that the “suspects… had been approaching in a method that endangered… the security of the troopers”.
“The incident is being investigated”, he added.
The ICRC stated Tuesday’s capturing brought about “the very best variety of weapon-wounded sufferers acquired in a single incident” for the reason that discipline hospital opened greater than a 12 months in the past.
“The unprecedented scale and frequency of current mass casualty incidents handled on the discipline hospital is deeply worrying and illustrates the harrowing actuality that civilians in Gaza are being compelled to endure,” it added.
An identical capturing incident occurred close to the identical support centre on Sunday, when rescuers reported 31 killed by Israeli gunfire and a army supply acknowledged “warning pictures had been fired in direction of a number of suspects”.
The ICRC had stated it acquired 179 sufferers that day, together with not less than 21 who had been pronounced useless.