16 Ambulance Crew Executed By IOF In Rafah
Israeli forces have executed 16 members of Civil Defense and Red Crescent teams in Tel Al-Sultan, Rafah, southern Gaza, following prior coordination with the International Red Cross.
The teams had been missing for four days. Their bodies were found buried near a military barracks, and all their ambulances and firefighting vehicles were deliberately destroyed.
Ezz Al-Din Shaath, Mustafa Khafaja, Saleh Ma’mar, Mohammed Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Mohammed Al-Hayla, Rifat Radwan, Asaad Al-Nasasra, Raed Al-Sharif
Fouad Al-Jamal, Youssef Khalifa, Anwar Al-Attar, Zuhair Al-Farra, Sameer Al-Bahabsa, Ibrahim Al-Maghari
The body of Civil Defense head Anwar Al-Attar was recovered and transferred to Nasser Hospital. Search efforts for the remaining missing continue.
- The Israeli army killed Palestinian Red Crescent and Civil Defense crews in cold blood during a humanitarian mission a few days ago northwest of Rafah.
- The Israeli army buried the bodies of the martyrs at the site of the attack, making it difficult to locate them.
- The scenes at the scene were horrific and confirm the deliberate targeting of ambulance and civil defense crews by the Israeli army.
- The Israeli army destroyed five Palestinian Red Crescent and Civil Defense vehicles and buried some of them after targeting them.
- What happened to the Palestinian Red Crescent and Civil Defense crews was a massacre that amounts to a war crime.
Palestinian Red Crescent:
• Our teams, with coordination and escort from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), successfully entered the Tel al-Sultan area in Rafah after five days of coordination attempts. The goal was to determine the fate of nine missing PRCS paramedics who had been besieged and targeted by Israeli occupation forces.
• The team faced major difficulties searching for signs of the martyrs due to the extensive destruction in the area and the erasure of its landmarks. They managed to retrieve one body belonging to the Civil Defense team.
• Due to the onset of darkness, the search operations could not continue and the team had to withdraw. Another attempt will be made tomorrow to re-enter the area, which has been under Israeli military incursion for five days, with ambulance and rescue teams barred from access.
