Red Cross restricts operations
2009-01-09 11:07
Jerusalem - The International Committee of the Red Cross is temporarily restricting its Gaza operations to the territory's main city after one of its vehicles was hit, apparently by Israeli forces, a spokesperson said.
"We had an incident when one of our trucks travelling at the front of a convoy of 13 ambulances delivering medical assistance to south Gaza was shot at," ICRC spokesperson Sophie Bonefield told AFP.
Asked who attacked the truck, the spokesperson said: "We very much believe it was the IDF (Israeli military)."
She said the ICRC was temporarily limiting its operations to Gaza City "while we reassess security arrangements".
The main UN agency in Gaza, UNRWA on Thursday suspended its operations in the battered Palestinian enclave after a contracted driver was killed when a truck convoy, sent to pick up humanitarian supplies in northern Gaza, was hit by tank shells.