Military spokesman Brigadier Common Effie Defrin mentioned in a televised assertion that the “suspects… have been approaching in a method that endangered… the protection of the troopers”.
“The incident is being investigated”, he added.
The ICRC mentioned Tuesday’s capturing precipitated “the best variety of weapon-wounded sufferers acquired in a single incident” because the subject hospital opened greater than a yr in the past.
“The unprecedented scale and frequency of latest mass casualty incidents handled on the subject hospital is deeply worrying and illustrates the harrowing actuality that civilians in Gaza are being pressured to endure,” it added.
An identical capturing incident occurred close to the identical assist centre on Sunday, when rescuers reported 31 killed by Israeli gunfire and a navy supply acknowledged “warning pictures have been fired in direction of a number of suspects”.
The ICRC had mentioned it acquired 179 sufferers that day, together with no less than 21 who have been pronounced lifeless.