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David__77

(24,860 posts)
Sun May 12, 2024, 11:16 PM May 2024

Private ambulance driver caught trying to smuggle 8 Palestinians from West Bank into Israel

A private ambulance driver was caught last night trying to smuggle eight Palestinians without permits into Israel.

The private ambulance was stopped at the Ofer checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel. The driver and Palestinians were arrested and the ambulance seized and taken to a Border Police base.

Health Minister Uriel Buso condemns the event, emphasizing that ambulances are to be reserved for transporting the sick and injured. “Any other use amounts to endangering public health,” he says.



https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/private-ambulance-driver-caught-trying-to-smuggle-8-palestinians-from-west-bank-into-israel/

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Private ambulance driver caught trying to smuggle 8 Palestinians from West Bank into Israel (Original Post) David__77 May 2024 OP
Is there a point that I am missing here? sheshe2 May 2024 #1
Obviously FBaggins May 2024 #3
Let me guess. They were all headiing out for a night at the movies? stopdiggin May 2024 #2
Video FBaggins May 2024 #4

FBaggins

(28,764 posts)
3. Obviously
Mon May 13, 2024, 03:09 PM
May 2024

This isn't an underground railroad trying to assist refugees to a safer country.
Some of those transported had previously been prisoners for prior attacks. Why do you think they were trying to sneak into Israel?

https://themedialine.org/headlines/volunteers-arrested-for-smuggling-palestinians-in-ambulance-at-jerusalem-checkpoint/

Oh... and it violates the laws of warfare to use an ambulance to transport combatants

stopdiggin

(15,645 posts)
2. Let me guess. They were all headiing out for a night at the movies?
Mon May 13, 2024, 01:54 AM
May 2024

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