Hamas tried to sneak its fighters out of the Gaza Strip in ambulances that evacuated dozens of wounded Palestinians to Egypt earlier this week, a senior Biden administration official said Friday.

Hamas had compiled a list of the seriously wounded that it wanted to evacuate from Gaza for treatment in Egypt, along with thousands of foreign nationals looking to flee the enclave.

The list was then vetted by Egypt and the United States, which found that a third of the names on it were of Hamas fighters, the administration official said, adding that the list was rejected and none of the 76 wounded Palestinians who were ultimately evacuated in ambulances out of Gaza were members of the terror group.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    28
    ·
    8 months ago

    This explanation sounds too flimsy to believe. Seems more like a cover story after the fact for the insane bombing of hospitals and a caravan of ambulances within a clear pattern of overall genocide.

    • mwguyOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      8 months ago

      It’s not like Hamas hasn’t been caught using ambulances to smuggle military goods around before.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      8 months ago

      I can believe this happens without condoning just bombing the shit out of any group of ambulances because they might contain fighters.