“HORRIFIC EXECUTIONS of RED CRESCENT MEDICS by IDF in Rafah”. Rescuers Buried in Mass Grave were Handcuffed, Shot to Head and Decapitated (chilling VIDEO)
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
“They still had their Crescent uniforms and bullet holes on their foreheads. Whoever fired aimed well,” Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra, 55, head of Pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, told Repubblica (source here).
Yesterday, a video published by the New York Times contradicts the official version given by the Israeli Army, which initially said it had found itself in front of suspicious individuals and without any obvious identifying signs. The IDF later admitted it was wrong and opened an investigation.
Interviewed by Italian journalist Fabio Tonacci, the medical witness who was the first to see the bodies of the paramedics found in the mass grave dug not far from where the ambulances and other vehicles of the rescue convoy were attacked on March 30. He is the one who made an initial analysis of the bodies.
The health worker explained the reasons that lead him to speak of “execution”: “I saw that three bodies had the marks of the nooses on their wrists. Someone tied their hands before shooting them. When they took them to the hospital they still had their Crescent uniforms on, how can you be wrong? They shot them deliberately,” he said.
“For me there is little doubt, it was an execution. They killed them even though they knew they were humanitarian workers,” he said.
Similar executions with beheadings of refugees had already been discovered in the past months in the mass graves of Khan Yunis.
“From the state they were in, it was clear that about 7 days had passed since they died. They had a lot of sand on them because they buried them in a sort of mass grave. They certainly didn’t die in an air raid, all the wounds I saw were from gunshots”.
And there is a survivor, the only one of the massacres, who however says “No, I think he is afraid to speak out anymore, he fears reprisals for his family who are in Gaza”.
The Palestinian doctor’s version was confirmed by Middle East Monitor (MEMO) newspaper which published the video of Jonathan Whittall, correspondent of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT),
«The UN has reported that 15 medics and aid workers, including Red Crescent staff, were found dead in a mass grave in Rafah, southern Gaza, some handcuffed and shot, still wearing their uniforms and gloves» pointed out MEMO.
Their vehicles and ambulances were discovered crushed and buried in an attempt to cover up the occupation army’s crimes. UN officials and the Red Cross have condemned Is
“Every day, one hundred Palestinians die. The blatant lie of the Israeli army that initially said that the ambulances had their lights off and were advancing in a suspicious manner has now attracted the attention of the world, but here people die every day under the fire of the soldiers. It is a massacre that must be stopped, but no one says anything to Israel. And I fear that this time too it will be the same”.
«As Israel’s military aggression in the Middle East continues, emergency workers and healthcare professionals are facing unprecedented dangers. Just this week 15 Palestinian medics were found handcuffed and buried in a mass grave in Gaza, after being executed one by one by Israeli forces» has MEMO reported, also making a video on the massacre of doctors (link below).
«The Palestinian Health Ministry has stated that the healthcare sector “has been subjected to systematic attacks… that have affected all its components”. These deliberate and often fatal assaults have devastated healthcare systems, leaving countless civilians without access to critical medical care».
Earlier, a UN report denounced not only the genocide of Palestinians and repeated human rights violations with war crimes by the Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu, hit by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, but even the serial rapes of children by IDF soldiers.
Israel buries bodies & vehicles of medics it killed in Gaza
by Middle East Monitor
Palestinian paramedics killed by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, had their hands tied with gunshot wounds on their heads, the Civil Defence Agency said today.
“They were found buried 200 metres from the site of the destroyed Civil Defense and Red Crescent vehicles, and they were wearing their standard orange uniforms typical of relief work,” spokesman Mahmud Basal told a press conference in Gaza City.
“Some crew members were found buried with their hands and feet tied, and bullet wounds were visible on their heads and chests, showing that they were executed at close range,” he said.
The spokesman said that one of the bodies was found decapitated.
rael’s actions, citing the attack as part of a broader pattern, with over 1,000 health workers killed since October 2023.
On Sunday, the Red Crescent Society said that it had recovered the bodies of eight medics, five civil defence workers and a UN staff member from Rafah after Israeli bombardment.
After international outrage, the Israeli occupation army claimed that the vehicles were advancing “suspiciously” towards its forces “without headlights, or emergency signals, [and] their movement was not coordinated in advance.”
The army claimed that nine members from Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups were killed in the 23 March incident.
However, images of the vehicles that were removed later by UN teams showed clearly that they were holding signs of ambulances, fire trucks along with a vehicle carrying the UN sign.
The civil defence spokesman called for an international investigation into the Israeli army’s killing of the Palestinian medics.
The death of the Palestinian medics triggered a massive war of condemnations from international rights and UN groups, who demanded answers for the killings.
Red Crescent calls for international investigation into doctors killed
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has called for an independent international investigation into the killing of 15 aid workers in an attack by Israeli forces in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on March 23.
“We call on the world to form an independent and impartial international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of the deliberate killing of ambulance crews in the Gaza Strip,” Younis Al-Khatib, the organization’s chairman, told reporters in Ramallah.
Under Fire: Israel’s War on Medics – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and Middle East Eye are hosting a film screening of ‘Under Fire: Israel’s War on Medics’ on Thursday, 24th April.
The event will take place at One Birdcage Walk (SW1H, 9JJ), in the heart of Westminster between 18:30 and 22:00, with the film to begin at 19:00.
The screening will be followed by keynote speeches from Professor Avi Shlaim and David Hearst, followed by a panel discussion. As well as Avi Shlaim and David Hearst the panel will feature Hind Hassan, who presented the documentary, as well as Dr. Victoria Rose and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, who both volunteered in hospitals in Gaza during the genocide, and UK Director of Human Rights Watch Yasmine Ahmed. The panel will be chaired by Middle East Eye’s Mohamed Hassan.
The ground-breaking documentary film, produced by Middle East Eye and presented by Hind Hassan, who reports on the work of paramedics on the frontline, capturing their harrowing experiences as they risk their lives to save others.
The film sheds light on Israel’s targeting of healthcare infrastructure and rescue teams in both Gaza and Lebanon, despite their protection under international law.
With powerful footage, expert insight, first-hand testimony and investigative reporting, the film-makers reveal the devastating toll of the attacks on emergency services.
After the screening, a panel discussion will offer a unique opportunity to engage and explore the themes and issues raised in the film. The panel will be chaired by Middle East Eye’s Mohamad Hassan and panellists will include:
- Professor Avi Shlaim (keynote speaker), Israeli-British Historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University.
- David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye.
- Hind Hassan, a multi-Emmy Award winning international correspondent and documentary filmmaker, who features in the film.
- Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch.
- Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive war surgeon and Rector of the University of Glasgow, who worked in hospitals in Gaza and Lebanon during Israel’s bombardment of healthcare infrastructure.
- Dr Victoria Rose, an NHS Plastic Surgeon who has supported trauma care services in Gaza since 2009, Chair of RCSE Special Advisory Committee for Plastic Surgery, and volunteer at European Gaza Hospital in March 2024 and Nasser Hospital in August 2024.
To connect ‘Under Fire: Israel’s War on Medics’
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MEMO – Israel buries bodies & vehicles of medics it killed in Gaza
GOSPA NEWS – PALESTINE GENOCIDE
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