Eyewitness Recounts Seeing Hamas Shoot Palestinian Civilians in Jabaliya

Cpl. Shai Gilboa, who is serving as a paramedic in the IDF’s 9th Battalion, told the Channel 12 news portal on Monday that Hamas is shooting civilians who try to evacuate from Jabaliya in the north of the Gaza Strip. The IDF has moved against Hamas in the city and urged uninvolved civilians to move out of the city to designated safe zones further south, but Hamas wants these civilians to stay in Jabaliya so they'll be available to use as human shields.

Cpl. Gilboa was interviewed by Channel 12 because a picture of her was published as she administered first aid to a wounded Palestinian woman.

“Our battalion went into action to exert as much military pressure as possible on Hamas terrorists, who held the civilian population in the area and forbade them from evacuating to a safe area,” Gilboa said, in explanation for what she was doing in the photograph. “The wounded came to us and we provided them with first aid in the field, which mostly entailed stopping the bleeding.”

“They smile at us, they wave goodbye at us,” she said, “they curse Hamas in front of us. Not only are they not afraid of us, a lot of them are on our side."