RAMALLAH (AFP) – The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Monday that 15 medics and rescuers killed by Zionist troops last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”. The killings occurred in the southern Gaza Strip on March 23, days into a renewed aggression by the Zionist regime in the blockaded territory, and have since sparked international condemnation.
Younis al-Khatib, president of the Red Crescent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, told journalists in Ramallah that an autopsy revealed that “all the martyrs were shot in the upper part of their bodies, with the intent to kill”.
He called for an international probe into the killings, which the Israeli military has separately announced it was investigating.