Red Cross outraged by the murder of eight medicine in Gaza

The International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent (IFRC) said it was “outraged” at the death of eight medical, killed in Rafa in South Gaza.

The ambulance team with nine people fell under a high fire in Al Hashashin on March 23, IFRC said. Their bodies were extracted on Sunday after access was denied for a week. One doctor is still missing.

The Palestin Society Red Crescent (PRCS) said the bodies of their staff were discovered with those of six members of the Civil Protection Agency, managed by Gaza and one UN employee.

They did not say who found fire on the convoy – but Hamas accused the Israeli defense forces of the attack. The BBC has sought a comment from IDF.

In the statement on Sunday, the IFRC said the eight bodies of the PrCC workers were extracted “after seven days of silence and access rejected to the Rafa area, where they were last seen.”

Организацията идентифицира убитите като служители на линейката Mostafa Khufaga, Saleh Muamer и Ezzedine Shaath, и доброволците на първия респондент Мохамед Балоул, Мохамед Ал-Хайла, Ашраф Абу Лабда, Раед Ал-Шариф и Рифат Радван.

He added that the ambulance officer Assad al Nasasra “is still missing.”

“I am broken by the heart. These dedicated ambulance workers responded to injured people. They were humanitarian,” IFC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain said.

“They wore emblems that had to protect them; their ambulances were clearly marked.

“Even in the most complex zones of conflict there are rules. These rules of international humanitarian law could not be more clear -civilians must be protected; the humanitors must be protected. Health services must be protected.”

IDF does not publicly comment on the statement of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent.

The AFP News Agency announced that on Saturday, Israeli military acknowledged that it had fired at an ambulance in Southern Gaza last Sunday after defining them as “suspicious vehicles”.

Israeli troops “opened fire to Hamas’s vehicles and eliminated several Hamas terrorists,” the military said in a statement to AFP.

“A few minutes later, the additional vehicles focused suspiciously to the troops … The troops reacted, shooting suspicious vehicles, removing a number of Hamas and Islamic jihad terrorists.”

The military added that “after an initial investigation, it was found that some of the suspicious vehicles … were ambulances and fire trucks.”

He also said he had been “reusable” by “terrorist organizations in the ambulance of ambulances in Gaza for terrorist purposes.”

Hamas Naim’s senior official breeze condemned the attack.

“The target murder of rescue workers – protected under international humanitarian law – is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime,” he said.

Israel resumed its military offensive in Gaza on March 18 after the first phase of ceasefire, which began in January

Since then, more than 900 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in GazaThe Ministry of Health, managed by Hamas, said.

The war was triggered when Hamas attacked South Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 back to gas as captives.

Israel has reacted with a large -scale military offensive, which killed over 50,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.