The Red Cross has condemned the killing of eight Palestinian doctors in southern Gaza for violating “heartbreak” in international humanitarian law after their body was found a week later.
Doctors were part of an ambulance team of nine people in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and were killed on March 23 in the Al-Hasheh area. Their body was taken back on Sunday after days of restricting the area. One of the team members will remain missing.
The Red Cross did not blame the attack, while Hamas accused Israel of killing PRCS rescue workers. Israel did not respond directly to the charges, but confirmed in a statement that its forces opened fire on “suspicious vehicles” which was later revealed that it was an ambulance and firefighter.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Society (IFRC) said all eight of them are wearing a clear sign and have traveled clearly by ambulance.
“I have broken my heart. These loyal workers of the ambulance responded to the wounded people.
“They were wearing the flags they had to protect; their ambulances were clearly marked.
“Even in the most complex conflict areas, there are rules. These rules of international human law were not clearer – civilians must be protected; humanists must be protected. Health services must be protected.
The first response to the Nasser Medical Society in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip hugged on Sunday, when the bodies of the first people in Palestine to be killed a week earlier in Israeli military fires on ambulances arrive (AFP through the Image)
Among the dead were ambulance officers Mosafa Khufaga, Saleh Mumar and Ezidin Shas, as well as volunteers of the first respondents Mohammed Bahloul, Mohammed al-Hilla, Ashraf Abu Lab, Rayed al-Sharif and Rifat Radwan. PRCS reported that the bodies alongside six members of the Gaza Civil Defense Agency, run by Hamas and found a UN employee, were found alongside six members of the Gaza Civil Defense Agency.
In a statement to AFP, the Israeli army told AFP that its troops had “open fires against Hamas vehicles and removed several Hamas terrorists from southern Gaza,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
“A few minutes later, extra suspicious vehicles advanced towards the soldiers… The soldiers responded by shooting against suspicious vehicles, destroying a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.
“After a preliminary investigation, it was determined that some of the suspicious vehicles were an ambulance and firefighters,” the military said.
Earlier, Israel accused Palestinian armed groups of using medical vehicles for “terrorist purposes.
Ambulances, the bodies of those killed in the first Palestine, were killed a week earlier in an Israeli military fire in other ambulances, on Sunday (AFP riots) arrives in the Nasser Medical Society in Khan Yuni, south of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas’s official Basmi called the killings a war crimes and violations of the Geneva conference as the murders.
“The targeted killing of the rescue workers – which is protected under international humanitarian law – is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime,” he said.
The attack came after Israel resumed its military offensive in Gaza on March According to the Gaza health ministry, more than 900 people have been killed in Israel’s strike since then.
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Palestinians attend Eid al-Adha prayers in Deir al-Bal, Gaza Strip (AP)
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