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Airwars Assessment
On October 31, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit an ambulance, injuring two paramedics in the Abu Sharkh area in the northern Gaza Strip.
On the day of the alleged strike, the account @Abdollah_KW posted a picture of the ambulance with its roof badly damaged and blood on the exterior of the passenger door to X/Twitter.
Also to X/Twitter, the accounts @ali_hunter7 and @AlQastalps posted the same image of a man with an injured leg in hospital, surrounded by medical staff.
An al-Mayadeen correspondent also reported the bombing of the ambulance on the same day; this statement was repeated by accounts on several other social media platforms.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the vicinity of the Abu Sharkh area/roundabout (دوار ابو شرخ) to the west of the Jabalia Camp (مخيم جباليا), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.535116, 34.486528. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.