Gaza Medic detained during a deadly Israeli attack, says the red crescent

The Israeli military released a Palestinian paramedic detained when Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in the southern Gaza last month, the Palestinian red crescent reported.

Assad al Nasasra was missing three weeks until the International Red Cross Committee received information in which he was in Israeli detention.

He is reported to be one of 10 detainees, released to a border crossing with gas on Tuesday.

The Israeli military did not comment. But this confirmed that he was holding Nasasra during a briefing for an internal investigation into the attack, which identified “several professional failures.”

PRCS condemned findings as an attempt to justify a “war crime”.

Eight PRCS paramedics, six first responders from the Gaza Civil Protection Agency and one UN Agency for Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) were killed when their ambulances, a firefighter and a vehicle at the March 23.

Their bodies were found buried in shallow graves a week later to the crushed vehicles.

Another PCC paramedic survived and said he was released by the Israeli forces after being detained with Nasasra.

The Israeli military initially stated that his troops fired at “suspicious vehicles” driving in darkness with excluded headlights and emergency lights.

But later, he said that the account was “wrong” after a video found on the mobile phone of one of the dead paramedics – Rifaat Radvan, who was in the same ambulance as Nassra – showed that the convoy was using its emergency lights.

At the end of the video, you can see the ambulances that have drawn on the road. The firing sound can then be heard just when Radvan escapes from his ambulance. It lasts for more than five minutes and is heard, saying his last prayers before hearing the voices of Israeli soldiers.

On April 20, the military raised a summary of their internal investigation, saying that the shooting of the 14 PRC officials and the civil defense was the result of a “operational misunderstanding” by troops from a reconnaissance battalion who believes they face a tangible threat. ”

He found the murder of an UNRWA employee, meanwhile, “involves a breach of orders during a combat setting.”

The military said that the deputy commander of the intelligence battalion was rejected “due to his responsibilities as a field commander in this incident and for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report during the collapse.”

The PRC condemned the report, saying it was proof of what he calls “Israel’s systematic distortion policy” to protect his soldiers from accountability.

“The results of the occupation investigation are conducting the usual delusional allegations of Gaza rescue teams, which are part of Hamas, to justify the military crime from targeting medical missions in general and the military crime of attacking teams and vehicles carrying the protected emblems of Geneva Conventions,” she said. “

The UN Humanitarian Humanitarian employee has warned that “the lack of real accounting undermines international law and makes the world more dangerous.”

The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 52 365 people were killed in Gaza during the subsequent war, according to the health ministry in the territory.

The ministry says more than 2,270 people were killed as Israel resumed its offensive on March 18 after the collapse of a two-month termination of fire, stating that it puts pressure on Hamas to release the 59 hostages he was still holding.

The Palestinian media reported on Tuesday that at least six people had been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes around the city of Gaza, to the north, including three in the area of ​​Al Shahaf.

It is alleged that four other people were killed in tents, veins, displaced people in the South Al Mavasi area near the city of Han Enis.

Israel also blocks all the supplies of humanitarian aid and other supplies to Gaza from March 2, which the UN says has caused a major lack of food, medicines and fuel.

On Tuesday, the UN Chief of Human Rights called on the world to “prevent the full collapse of critical life -saving support in Gaza.”

“Any use of the hunger of the civilian population as a method of war is a war crime and thus make all forms of collective punishment,” warned Volker Turk.

The UN said Israel is obliged to guarantee the supplies of 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza.

But Israel said it was responsible for international law and had no shortage of help, as 25,000 truck loads entered the fire. He also accused Hamas of theft of supplies, which the group denied.