Hamas slams US claims it uses ‘ambulances for terrorism’
Hamas has slammed a statement by the US which claimed the Palestinian group “uses ambulances and more broadly human shields for terrorism”.
It said the remarks by Brian Hughes, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council, express the Trump administration’s “understanding of the crime of executing Red Crescent and Civil Defence personnel in Rafah”.
“[The remarks] are a hideous example of immoral solidarity with the Nazis of our time in their brutal war against defenceless civilians and humanitarian organisations,” the group said.
“Hughes’s accusations that Hamas is using ambulances are pure lies, devoid of any evidence, propagated by the US administration, alongside the government of war criminal Netanyahu, to justify its heinous and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers.”
Lebanese state media say two people killed in Israeli strike
Lebanese state media say the Israeli attack has killed two people, hours after the Israeli military said it had killed a Hezbollah leader in an earlier strike.
“Two Syrians were killed on a motorcycle and one citizen was injured in an enemy strike on the Dardara road” in southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun district, the official National News Agency said.
Activists at Egypt border demand aid entry to Gaza
A group of activists has gathered on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing to demand its immediate opening to allow humanitarian aid into the enclave.
The renewal of Israeli attacks on March 18, combined with the full closure of all crossings for cargo since March 2, has left the population of Gaza with an acute shortage of food.
Activists rally at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, Gaza's only gate to the world, demanding its immediate opening to allow badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave. pic.twitter.com/8Gikde2bJ0
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 7, 2025
