Nine crew members of the Red Crescent were missing for a week after being subjected to an Israeli fire in Rafah.
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says that 15 organizations were found in Rafah, southern Gaza, a week after its first stakeholders were heavy with Israeli forces.
The PRCs said on Sunday that eight of the bodies had been identified as members of the PRC, six as members of the Civil Defense, and one as an employee of the United Nations Agency. A first PRCS answering machine is always missing.
The group said that people killed “were targeted by the Israeli occupation forces while exercising their humanitarian tasks while they were heading to the Hashashin region in Rafah to provide first a number of people injured by Israeli bombardments in the region.”
“The targeting by the occupation of the doctors of the Red Crescent … cannot be considered as a war crime punishable by international humanitarian law, which the occupation continues to violate before the whole world.”
In a previous declaration, the Red Crescent said that the bodies “had been recovered with difficulty because they were buried in the sand, some showing signs of decomposition”.
The president of the PRC, Younis al-Khatib, condemned Israel for having targeted his paramedical paramedics while “fulfill their humanitarian mission”.
“These souls are not simple figures. If this incident (happened) elsewhere, the whole world would have moved paradise and the earth to exhibit this war crime,” said Al-Khatib on Sunday.
Last week, the Israeli army told the AFP news agency that it had fired on ambulances and fire trucks – calling them “suspicious vehicles” – which arrived on a scene where he was making attacks.
The member of the Hamas political bureau, Basem, Naim, criticized the attack on the ambulance and said that the “targeted murder of rescuers – protected by international humanitarian law – constitutes a blatant violation of the Geneva conventions and a crime of war”.
OCHA chief Tom Fletcher said that Israel has broken the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed his war against the enclave, Israeli air attacks struck “densely populated areas”, with “patients killed in their hospital beds, the ambulances shot, the first respondents”.
The Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that since Israel resumed its attacks, at least 921 people have been killed in the territory, adding to the more than 50,000 killed since October 7, 2023.
Israel launched his war after the attack on Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, during which 1,139 people died and around 250 were taken captive in Gaza.
