We say that after Israel kills the doctor, the law applies to “all parties”

The US said it hopes Gaza’s “all political parties on earth” will comply with international humanitarian law, but refused to confirm whether it is carrying out its own assessment of the killings of 15 Israeli forces, the deaths of paramedics, civil defense workers and UN officials.

Asked about the murder, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said “everything happened in Gaza for Hamas is happening.”

The UN Humanitarian agency says five ambulances, fire trucks and UN vehicles were attacked “one at a time” on March 23, with 15 groups gathering together, including paramedics still in uniform, buried in mass graves.

Israeli forces said the force fired on a vehicle “going suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals, and Hamas surgeons and other extremists among those killed, but did not provide comment on accounts of the bodies gathered in the sand and buried.

International humanitarian law prohibits the targeting of civilians and calls for specific protections for healthcare workers.

The United States, Israel’s largest weapons supplier, is bound by its own law, which prohibits weapons used by foreign troops for violations of humanitarian law.

Jonathan Whittar, head of the UN Humanitarian Agency in Gaza, said the mass graves had been “marked” with emergency lighting from one of the ambulances that collided on the strike.

“What happened here is an absolute horror,” he said in the X video, adding, “Health workers should never be targeted.”

Israel updated its Air Force and ground campaign in Gaza on March 18th after negotiations over a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamasran Ministry of Health.

Israeli forces launched a campaign on October 7, 2023 to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack. Around 1,200 people were killed there and 251 were taken hostages.

More than 50,350 people died in Gaza during the subsequent war, according to the Ministry of Health.