Gaza’s civil defence agency said it could no longer provide first responder services in the north of the territory, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to “bomb and kill” its crews, AFP reports.

“We are unable to provide humanitarian services to citizens in the northern governorate of the Gaza Strip due to threats from Israeli occupation forces, who have threatened to kill and bomb our teams if they remain inside Jabalia camp”, the agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

Bassal said that its first responders “have been targeted” on several occasions, leaving “several members injured, and others are left bleeding on the streets with no one able to rescue them”.

Bassal published a photograph of a burnt truck on social media, explaining that it was “the only civil defence vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip governorate”, which includes Gaza City.

Bassal wrote that the truck was “targeted by the Israeli army” in the northern city of Beit Lahia, just north of Jabalia and near Gaza’s northern border with Israel.