The bodies of more than ten human workers in southern Gaza were recovered, a week after they disappeared after the attacks of the Israeli forces, in a procedure described by the United Nations as a “serious prize attack.”
PRCS said in a statement that eight of 14 bodies were recovered on Sunday (30) of the site in the southern region of his rack identified as members of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five as a civil defense and one as an employee of the United Nations Agency.
The community doctor is still missing.
The body of the fifth person, a civil defense worker, was recovered on Thursday (27) in this place, after PRCS stated that arrival was initially refused to the area.
A CNN I called Israeli army.
Last week, PRCS claimed that nine medical emergency technicians were missing Since March 23, after the shooting of Israeli forces in ambulances And fire trucks in the south of Rafah.
In response to the initial attack, the Israeli army stated that it had shot ambulances and fire trucks because it was used as a cover by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants.
The auxiliary organizations and the United Nations have expressed their anger at the attacks, which the Red Cross and Red Crescent claimed to be the “bloody” of their workers for nearly a decade.
“This massacre for our team is a tragedy not only for us in the Red Crescent Society in Palestine, but also for humanitarian and humanitarian work,” PCRS crossed in a statement, and called for the attack on doctors “crime of war” under international law.
The attacks occur amid the new attack of Israel to the region The full humanitarian aid bloc It approaches a month mark.
Burn in the sand
The United Nations Human Coordination Office (OCA) reported that the bodies were recovered after a “one -week complex rescue operation” that included the use of heavy excavations and machines to dig victims and their damaged vehicles.
“The health professionals should never be a target. However, we are here today, and we are digging a common trench of rescuers and paramedics,” said Jonathan Whital, head of the Unocha team in the Palestinian territories occupied on the site.
The video shared by UNOCA showed a digger digging on the ground and moving the debris while the rescuers used oxidants to reach the victims.
Several bodies were seen as sand, some wearing PRCS jackets and showed signs of decomposition.
The first information indicates that the first team of human workers who were sent to the area was killed by Israeli forces on March 23, and other emergency aid teams were struck in the following hours while looking for missing colleagues.
And Whital said: “One after another, they were beaten, beaten, and their bodies were collected and buried.” “We overlook them in their official uniforms, with their gloves.”
And Whital added that the ambulances, in addition to the United Nations and civil defense vehicles, were crushed and buried under the sand, accusing the Israeli forces of trying to cover the scene.
A CNN Contact the Israeli army to comment.
According to PRCS, human workers were sent to the Hashinat area in Rafah on March 23 to respond to Israeli attacks when they were attacked.
The service said: “The Israeli forces rocked the area, which led to the loss of full communication with our teams.”
Hours later, the Civil Defense in Gaza stated that six of its employees had also disappeared after sending them to the same area, after which it described as “a sudden battle from the Israeli occupation forces, and the death and injury of dozens of” PRCS “cars.
The Israeli army said CNN Earlier of their forces opened fire on that day against “suspicious vehicles”, including ambulances and fire trucks, which were advancing towards the forces without prior coordination, using headlights or emergency signs.
The forces claimed that they had “canceled” many Hamas and Islamic jihad militants who opened fire in vehicles and condemned what he claimed to be “the frequent use of civil infrastructure by terrorist organizations in Gaza, including the use of medical facilities and ambulances for terrorist purposes.”
The attacks took place less than a week after Israel renewed its attack on the Gaza Strip On March 18, the ceasefire was broken from weeks with Hamas.
Since then, the Israeli attacks have killed at least 921 Palestinians and have wounded more than two thousand, according to the Hamas -controlled Ministry of Health.
A CNN There is no way to verify the numbers independently and the Israeli government does not allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza independently.
The news also follows the decision of Israel before the ceasefire collapsed Preventing the entry of humanitarian aid in the regionIn what he described as a movement to pressure Hamas to accept new terms to extend the ceasefire instead of continuing the second stage of the armistice.
The United Nations Coordination and Aid Office of Humanitarian Aid accuses the Israeli government of violating international law by preventing the flow of aid to Gaza and using hunger as a war weapon.
The organizations themselves accused Israel of restricting or creating obstacles to entering aid during the war.
“Health services must be protected”
Humanitarian and international organizations have repeatedly condemned Israeli military attacks on medical facilities and employees.
“Even in the most complex conflict areas, there are rules. These rules of international humanitarian law cannot be protected, humanitarian services must be protected.
Hospitals in Gaza – including the medical complex in Nasser, the largest hospital working in the region – have suffered from the bombing and severe attacks by the Israeli forces accusing housing facilities in Hamas, Hamas agents.
About 400 humanitarian workers, including teachers, doctors and nurses, have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the latest OCHA updated on Tuesday (25).
PRCS states that the number of its employees who have been killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 has reached 27.
PCRS said: “The occupation attack by the Red Crescent doctors … cannot be considered a war crime punishable under international humanitarian law, which the occupation continues to violate before the eyes of the whole world.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s health officials report The death toll in Gaza since October 7 exceeded 50 thousandA dark teacher for an endless war.
