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Israel said to release Gazan medic arrested during Rafah ambulance shooting last month
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
Media outlets in Gaza report that Israel has returned to Gaza 10 Palestinians arrested during the course of the war.
Among those said to have been released is Asaad al-Nassasrah, a paramedic who was arrested during an incident in which 15 medics were killed by Israeli forces in southern Gaza’s Rafah last month.
Nassasrah is the only survivor of the shooting, which occurred on March 23, days into the renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The Israeli military has said its soldiers fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles,” and has denied that the Palestinians had been shot at close range or executed.
It asserts that at least six of those killed had been posthumously identified as Hamas operatives.
The Times of Israel Community.