Shortly before 12:34 PM on Thursday, January 11th, 2024, up to two Palestinian Civil Defense crew members were reportedly injured in an alleged ‘double tap’ Israeli airstrike on the civil defense crews and paramedics while they were trying to rescue injured people who were trapped under the rubble of a house in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Shehab Agency was the first to report an injury of a member of the Civil Defense at 12:34 PM. General Directorate of Civil Defense later confirmed the injury of one of its rescue team members in an alleged “double tap” strike which hit crew members who were carrying out their humanitarian duty. Later the Directorate reported that two Civil Defense members were injured.

A video filmed by Al Jazeera and reposted in its shorter version by many Twitter/X users and media outlets showed Palestinian Civil Defense crew members rushing towards a house damaged by the earlier strike, being shown how to get inside by children, then entering it to search for survivors and being hit by a powerful explosion while they were inside. The video also showed how two male Civil Defense members who had been injured were assisted by their colleagues to get into an ambulance.

Twitter/X user @MawtiniLevent shared a similar video alleging that the incident happened in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex and adding that civil defense teams were attempting to extinguish a fire that broke out as a result of the bombardment that affected the place earlier.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.