The Palestine Red Crescent Society says that an autopsy shows that 15 medics and rescuers killed by Israeli forces last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill.”
The killings occurred in the southern Gaza Strip on March 23, days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory, and have since sparked international condemnation.
Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Red Crescent in the West Bank, tells journalists in Ramallah: “There has been an autopsy of the martyrs from the Red Crescent and civil defense teams. We cannot disclose everything we know, but I will say that all the martyrs were shot in the upper part of their bodies, with the intent to kill.”
Khatib called for an international probe into the killings, which the Israeli military has separately announced it was investigating.
The Israeli military has said its soldiers fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles.” The IDF denied that the Palestinians had been shot at close range or executed.
It asserted that at least six of those killed had been posthumously identified as Hamas operatives.
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