Palestine mentioned on Saturday that video footage displaying the execution of 15 paramedics and help staff in Rafah, southern Gaza, refutes Israeli forces’ claims that ambulances weren’t randomly focused.
In an official assertion, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry mentioned a video posted by an American newspaper documenting the deliberate execution of 15 emergency and aid staff in March disproves Israeli claims that it didn’t randomly assault ambulances or acknowledge them attributable to an absence of lights or emergency alerts.
“This is a fully documented crime, part of the ongoing genocide and forced displacement campaign against our people,” the ministry mentioned, including: “It reveals the brutality committed daily by the occupation (Israeli) forces against Palestinian civilians, humanitarian and UN personnel, medical workers, and journalists—all with the intent to intimidate them and prevent any aid from reaching our people in Gaza.”
It added: “The occupation forces aim to destroy all forms and foundations of life in the Gaza Strip, turning it into uninhabitable land, as a step toward imposing forced displacement on Palestinian civilians.”
Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance motion Hamas mentioned in a separate assertion that the footage “reveals a horrific discipline execution crime, intentionally carried out by the Zionist occupation military by concentrating on ambulance and civil protection crews whereas they had been performing their humanitarian responsibility of rescuing the wounded.
“This shocking video is not just a tragic scene, but irrefutable evidence of the occupation’s brutality, its blatant violation of international laws and conventions, and its deliberate attempt to cover up the crime by burying the victims in mass graves and erasing the truth.”
The motion known as on the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and all folks of conscience to “urgently act to document this crime and others, refer them to international courts, and work to hold the leaders of the occupation (Israel) accountable as war criminals.”
The assertion got here as a response to a viral video launched on Saturday, which was discovered on the telephone of a Palestinian paramedic whose physique was found in a mass grave alongside 14 colleagues after they had been executed by the Israeli military whereas performing their humanitarian duties.
On March 31, the Israeli military claimed that the assault on the ambulances was not random, alleging that 9 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad teams had been killed within the assault.
However, on March 30, the Palestine Red Crescent Society introduced the invention of 15 our bodies following the Israeli assault.
According to Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal, a number of members of the civil protection group had been discovered with their arms and ft certain and visual bullet wounds on their heads and torsos, suggesting they had been executed at shut vary after being recognized for his or her humanitarian work. One of the civil protection personnel had been decapitated, and the remaining our bodies had been present in items.
More than 50,600 Palestinians, most of them girls and kids, have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s navy onslaught since October 2023.
Source: www.anews.com.tr