Iranian Red Crescent Condemns Israel Killing of Gaza Medics

Date: 08 April 2025 - 21:45

News ID: ۱۳۸۲۶۹

TEHRAN – The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has condemned the killing of medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by the Israeli regime’s forces in Gaza.
Pir-Hussein Koulivand, the president of the IRCS and director of Iran’s National Committee of Humanitarian Law, strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s fatal attacks on medical and humanitarian workers in Palestine.
Expressing sympathy with the families of the late Palestinian medics and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Koulivand condemned the blind attacks against the civilians, medical staff, rescuers, civil defense forces, and the UN workers that are involved in humanitarian activities amid the armed clashes.
He also stressed the need to observe and protect the treaties, rules and norms of the international humanitarian law, including the protection of medical personnel, facilities, and transports during armed conflicts.
The Iranian official also called on the international community and the member states of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions to act seriously and effectively to promote the practice of prosecuting the international crimes and end the impunity for the Israeli regime.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has called for an independent international inquiry into the deliberate killing of 15 medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
In a statement on Monday, the group said the March 23 attack in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah “constitutes a full-fledged war crime, and it reflects a dangerous pattern of repeated violation of international humanitarian law”.
A video recently recovered from the mobile phone of one of the medics showed their final moments. The medics were wearing highly reflective uniforms and were inside clearly identifiable rescue vehicles before they were shot by Israeli forces in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighborhood.
The PRCS lost eight of its workers in the attack. Six members of the Palestinian Civil Defense agency and an employee of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were also killed.
In its statement, the PRCS said the area was not classified as a “red zone” at the time of the emergency response, which means no prior coordination was required to access the site.
According to UNRWA, at least 408 aid workers, including more than 280 UNRWA staff members, have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023.