The differences differ in Israeli forces that fired ambulances in the area of this al -sultan in Rafah, in the southern strip of Gaza, last month, killing 15 paramedics, according to the United Nations and Palestinian sources.
According to the “French press agency”, the Crescent Red Palestinese announced on Sunday the recovery of the bodies of 15 paramedics killed in the shootings of the Israeli army on ambulances to such at -Sultan in Rafah, in the Southern Gaza Strip, a week ago.
The United Nations said that the dead were an emergency paramedic that responded to the rescue calls of the Palestinians in the south of Gaza, while the Israeli army described them as “terrorists”.
The United Nations reported that 15 paramedics, most of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Gaza Civil Protection Agency, were killed on March 23. Among these was an employee of the United Nations Agency for rescue and works for Palestinian refugees (UNWA).
Another emergency worker is still missing.
In the following days, their bodies were found buried together in the sand in the Rafah area of such Sultan.
March 23?
The attack took place while the Israeli forces were besieged Rafah, since the authorities warn that “thousands of civilians” were trapped under the bombings.
In response to rescue calls, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has sent a team of ten paramedics from the Tel al -Sultan unit in four ambulances to the areas of Berksat and Al -hashashin in East of Rafah.
In the meantime, the civil defense authority in Gaza has sent six paramedics into an ambulance and fire -fighting engines on a separate bombing site.
What does the Israeli army say?
The Israeli army recognized that his forces shot ambulances in the Gaza strip after considering him “suspicion”.
The army declared in a declaration that “a few minutes” that the soldiers “eliminated a series of terrorists (Hamas)” opening the fire on their vehicles, “other vehicles moved suspiciously towards the soldiers”.
He stressed that during the “judiciary” accident, an element in “Hamas” was Muhammad Amin Ibrahim al -Shobaki “as well as eight terrorists of (Hamas) and (Islamic jihad).
Hamas did not comment on the killing of Al -Shobaki.
The army spokesman, Nadaf Shoshani, confirmed on Thursday that the army was investigating the accident, while underlining that what happened was “inevitably not an execution”.
The director of the United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has narrated in the occupied Palestinian territories, Jonathan Whital, in a video intervention by Deir al -balah, coordinating the task of revealing a “mass tomb” of the paramedics and the elements of civil defense.
He explained that the paramedics “still wore their official uniforms and still put the gloves”, and they were killed while trying to save human lives, indicating that their ambulances were bombed one by one while they entered an area where Israeli forces were advancing “.
For his part, an Israeli military official said that the army “contacted the organizations several times to coordinate the evacuation of the bodies, in a way compatible with operating restrictions”.
He added that “the awareness of the army that the operation could take time, the bodies were covered with sand sheets and fabrics to preserve them”.
The army did not comment on the accusations that the bodies had been buried in a “mass tomb”.
Israel repeatedly accused Palestinian militants of using medical structures and ambulances.
And the Jewish state has previously published, sometimes movies of ambulance wardrobes.
What was found in research?
In the aftermath of the attack, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society initially stated that one of the paramedics was held by the Israeli forces, leaving nine another and six members of the “civil defense” missing.
Crescent Red Palestinese paramedic was released after one day.
On March 27, the civil defense of Gaza arrived on the attack website and the ambulance destroyed, the firefighters, the Palestinian red crescent ambulances and the safety equipment for some victims were found.
The bodies of the paramedics “buried under the rubble were found by the Israeli bulldozers”.
On that day, they could only recover the body of the captain of the civil defense team, Anwar al -attar.
They were unable to recover the remaining bodies because the Israeli authorities gave them only two hours for the research process.
On another research mission, conducted on March 30 in coordination between the civil defense in Gaza and the red crescent and the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office, the remaining bodies were found.
Whital, who coordinated the operation, confirmed that everyone was buried together.
At a press conference he said that “the tomb in which they were buried … distinguished itself for an emergency light from one of the ambulances that the Israeli forces have crushed”.
He added that near the tomb, “the ambulances, a fire truck and a United Nations vehicle have been crushed”.
The UNRWA spokesman, Juliet Touma, told the French news agency that the body of the UNRWA employee was in the United Nations vehicle.
What are the unknown elements?
Some aspects of the accident are not yet clear.
While Palestinian officials reported the killing of 15 paramedics, the army decided to kill only nine people, all armed.
It is not clear if all vehicles have walked together and were on fire at the same time.
“The ambulances were injured one by one while applied and entered Rafah,” said Whital from the humanitarian coordination office.
