The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called for an immediate investigation into the deaths of eight of its emergency technicians after they were attacked by the Israeli army last Sunday.

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Health workers were on their way to treat wounded people in Rafah, south of Gaza, in an incident that was described by the Palestinian Red Cross as a “war crime”.

In a statement, the PRCS “demands that the perpetrators of this war crime be held accountable, that an immediate and urgent investigation be carried out to ensure justice for the victims of this massacre, and that the fate of the missing paramedic Asaad al Nasasra, whose whereabouts remain unknown, be revealed.”

In the text, the PRCS said that 27 employees of this organization have already been killed while performing their humanitarian duty as a result of Israeli attacks in Gaza. In total, the number of health workers killed in 18 months of war amounts to at least 1,060, according to the latest UN data.

This afternoon, after visiting the besieged neighborhood of Tal el Sultan (Rafah) together with personnel from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 14 lifeless bodies were found underground: those of 8 paramedics, five Civil Defense rescuers and a UN worker.

Two days ago, the PRCS first recovered the “destroyed” body of Anwar Abdul Hamid al Attar, the head of the Civil Defense mission in Rafah, while they continued searching for the rest of his colleagues.

This organization believes that, after the attack, the Israeli Army “intentionally altered the site and buried the bodies of some citizens using bulldozers and heavy machinery.” Next to Attar’s corpse, they also found an ambulance and a fire engine “reduced to scrap metal,” according to a statement issued on Friday by Civil Defense.

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