The Red Cross was angry at the killing of paramedics by the Israeli forces

The Red Cross was angry at the killing of paramedics by the Israeli forces

Jaroslav Lukiv and David Gritten

BBC News

Anadolu via Getty Images, the Palestinian Red Crescent Association employees embrace the bodies of their colleagues to a medical facility in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. Photo: March 30, 2025Anadolu via Getty Images

The employees of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society adopt that the bodies of their colleagues are brought to a medical facility in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says that it is “angry” that eight Palestinian paramedics were killed with six respondents for civil defense and an employee member by the Israeli forces in southern Gaza.

A United Nations official said five ambulances, a fire truck and a United Nations car were beaten in the Hashheen on March 23. Fifteen bodies were recovered from the scene on Sunday.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that the ninth doctor was missing and accused Israel of targeting its employees.

The Israeli army said that the forces that were called vehicles “are advancing” without headlights or emergency signals. She said that Hamas workers and “eight other terrorists” were among the dead.

“Seven days after silence and access to the Rafah area, where the last time was seen.”

The organization identified those who were killed as an ambulance officer to Mustafa Khfara, and Saleh Mouami, Azzidain Shattat, and the first respondent volunteers Muhammad Bahlul, Muhammad Al -Hila, Ashraf Abu Labda, and Rak Sharev and Radwan countryside.

He added that the Ambulance officer, the Lion, the Sharabi, was “still missing.”

“I am sad,” said the Secretary -General of the Jagan Shabagan, Secretary -General of IFRC.

“They were wearing slogans to protect; their ambulances were clearly marked.

“Even in the most complex conflict areas, there are rules. The rules of international humanitarian law cannot be more clear – civilians must be protected; human doctors must be protected. Health services must be protected.”

The head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA) in Gaza, Gonathan Whital, said in a post on X Its employees have supported PRCS and the civil defense in restoring the bodies from “a collective grave … distinguished with the emergency light from one of the extractive ambulances.”

He added that the Ocha staff were not only able to reach the site after six days, when they found the vehicles buried in part and were able to restore the body of the civil defense worker below the fire truck.

“Today, on the first day of Eid, we returned and we regained the bodies buried of 8 PRCS, 6 civil defense and 1 United Nations employees. They were killed in their military uniforms. They are driving their cars clearly. Wearing their gloves. On their way to save lives. This should have never happened.”

PRCS said it was destroyed by the “team of our team.”

“[Israel’s] A statement added that the targeting of the red crescent doctors, despite the protected situation of their mission and the slogan of the Red Crescent cannot be considered a war crime that is punishable by international humanitarian law.

At the funeral of the doctors on Monday, Ashraf Abu Laba’s father told the BBC: “They are [Israeli troops] She targeted the first car, then the second and then the third. They killed them in cold blood. “

Nasser Abu Laba said: “We were trying to search for them for eight days. They refused all coordination with Red Crescent, Ocha or UN. No one could bear them. God only.”

The image of Jonathan Whital/Oshha, which was published on X by On Osha Jonathan Westel, shows the wreckage of the Palestinian civil defense fire truck that was shocked by the Israeli forces during an accident in the Rafah area in Gaza on March 23 (30 March 2025)Jonathan Whital/Usha

UN official Jonathan Whital said that ambulances, cars and fire truck have been crushed and partially buried.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that during an operation in southern Gaza on March 23, “many vehicles were identified in an interesting way towards the Israeli Defense Forces without the headlights, or emergency signals, their movement was not coordinated in advance.

After the initial evaluation, it was decided that the forces had canceled the military agent in Hamas, Muhammad Amin Ibrahim Shobaki, along with eight other terrorists from Hamas and Beige. [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]”Add.

“In the aftermath of the strike, the Israeli Defense Army coordinates with international organizations to facilitate the evacuation of bodies.”

A previous statement in the IDF on the incident said that the initial investigation had decided that “some suspicious vehicles that were moving towards the forces were ambulances and fire trucks.” He also condemned “the frequent use of civil infrastructure by terrorist organizations.”

The IDF did not comment on the location of the lost PRCS Medic.

The official Hamas case condemned Naeem the attack.

He said, “The targeted killing of rescue workers – who protect under international humanitarian law – is a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and the crime of war.”

The Och Olga Cherevko spokeswoman said there should be a complete investigation to determine exactly what happened.

“They were clearly noticeable relief workers, and for this reason it is clearly important to reach them and get all the facts,” she told the BBC.

When I was asked about the statements of the Israeli Defense Army that the members of Hamas and Beige were killed, she said: “There are some rules that all wars enjoy, and this is why all parties in the conflict must adhere to these rules, and this is what we have always said … but this does not negate the fact that humanitarian aid workers and emergency respondents should not be targeted.”

The mourners at the funeral of the paramedics of the Palestinian red threats who were killed by Israeli forces on March 23, in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza (March 31, 2025)

A funeral for the Palestinian red crescent hilates was held in the southern city of Khan Yunis on Monday

The incident, which occurred in Hashin, occurred on the same day when the Israeli Defense Army announced that its forces surrounded the nearby Tal Sultan area in Rafah and ran out what he said was a leadership center and was in Hamas there.

On Monday, the Israeli Defense Army issued a new sweeping thing to evacuate the entire Rafah area, and I ask all residents to go to the nearby humanitarian area for their safety.

The spokesman for the Israeli Arab Defense Army warned that “it is due to the fighting with great force to eliminate the capabilities of terrorist organizations in these areas.”

Israel launched the first major operation in Rafah last May, leaving large parts of it in a state of ruin. However, tens of thousands of people have returned to the remaining two months of their homes during a two -month ceasefire.

Israel renewed its air strikes and the ground attack in Gaza on March 18 after the first stage of the ceasefire deal ended, and negotiations excelled in the second stage of the deal.

Since then, 921 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.

The war broke out when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 to Gaza as hostages.

The Gaza Ministry of Health says that the Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response, as more than 50270 people were killed.

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