Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was denied for a week. One medic is still missing.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said their staff's bodies were discovered along with those of six members of Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency and one UN employee.

They did not say who opened fire on the convoy - but Hamas blamed the Israel Defense Forces for the attack. The BBC has sought comment from the IDF.
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The AFP news agency reported that on Saturday the Israeli military admitted it had fired on ambulances in southern Gaza last Sunday after identifying them as "suspicious vehicles".

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkxm1rg6k1o

[Aussie105]

1. Outrage?

I'd have much stronger words to describe what happened there, but they won't help resolve this humanitarian disaster.

It is as if no one really cares.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Some countries have decided those old Geneva Conventions are just too polite. Cruelty is

now in vogue.

[lark]

3. Israel can kill everyone in Gaza and tsf would just chirp about how happy he is, he is evil!

Death for profits is his kind of thing. He and Netanyahoo are both criminal traitors to their country and are powerful fascists oligrarchs.

[Orrex]

5. Yes, and more than a few people would say it's Hamas' fault.

Hamas is, of course, a vile terrorist cult that should be destroyed to its last member.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.

According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.
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“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement. “One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.

“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said. “These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un