Report Indicate IDF Executed Red Crescent Officials in Gaza
Israeli forces are facing mounting pressure to account for the deaths of 15 emergency workers, including paramedics, who were killed by the IDF during a callout in Gaza.
The workers, traveling in Red Crescent ambulances, were shot dead under disputed circumstances, with new evidence suggesting that some of them were executed.
Recovery teams, who retrieved the bodies after a week-long delay, have claimed that some victims had their hands and feet bound before being killed.
The bodies remained buried and untouched for over a week because it took that long for the IDF to allow a recovery operation to take place.
A video obtained by ITV News shows one member of the recovery team stating that the victim he was helping to dig out had been tied up before being killed.
The recovery team later took photographs in the hospital, which appear to show bindings on the victims’ wrists, further suggesting the executions.
Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, a doctor who examined three of the bodies at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, confirmed that the victims’ hands were tightly bound, supporting the claims of execution.
He explained, “They were tightened, both hands, and we could see the kind of tight that it was.”
One survivor, paramedic Munther Abed, contradicted the Israeli Defence Forces’ version of events.
The IDF claimed that the ambulances approached the soldiers with their lights off and no identification, but Abed, who was the assistant paramedic in an ambulance dispatched from a British charity-run field hospital, denied this.
He recalled hearing his colleagues’ last breaths as the vehicles were fired upon by special forces wearing night-vision goggles and carrying weapons with green lasers.
Abed stressed that under normal circumstances, emergency vehicles always have their sirens and lights on.
The IDF has confirmed they are “checking” the allegations but has not issued a detailed response.
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