IDF says it’s probing Dec. 2024 raid in which troops used ambulance to enter West Bank refugee camp

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The IDF says it is investigating after troops used an ambulance to enter the Balata camp in the northern West Bank during a counterterrorism raid there last month.

Footage posted by Palestinian media yesterday showed a group of soldiers emerging from a vehicle marked as an ambulance.

The incident was said to have taken place on December 19, 2024.

On that day, the Palestinian Authority health ministry reported the death of an 80-year-old woman, along with a 25-year-old man who was claimed as a member of Hamas.

The military says the investigation “will examine the use of the vehicles seen in the video and the allegations of harm to uninvolved [civilians] during the exchange of fire between the terrorists and our forces.”

“The IDF is committed and acts in accordance with international law,” the army adds.

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