The Palestine Red Crescent has reported this Sunday of the recovery of 14 bodies in southern Gaza corresponding to, according to a statement from this institution. After getting access to the Hashashin area, in the Tel to Sultan neighbor United Nations.
The bodies were “buried in the sand and some showed signs of decomposition,” adds the same source, which holds Israel for deaths and accuses this country of “flagrant violation” of international law. There is a ninth member of the crescent that they continue to be missing, but that suspect can be detained in Israeli hands. The country has asked the Israeli army about the facts without obtaining a response so far.
“Even in the most complex conflict areas there are rules,” recalls the International Red Cross Federation and the Red Crescent in a condemnation statement in which, in addition, he regrets the deaths without quoting Israel. It is, they add, of the most serious incident that suffers since 2017. With these eight, 30 employees of the Palestinian crescent who have lost their lives in the strip during the current contest are already raised. “We are disconsolate” because they have been “killed while attending the injured” and “they should have been protected.”
The appearance of the bodies has taken place 13 days after the Israeli prime minister, and his troops resumed the bombings on Gaza, where the dead from that March 18 already exceed 800. Only in the last 24 hours, the fatal victims in the Palestinian enclave amount to about half a hundred and rise to more than 50,000 since the war began in October 2023.
Netanyahu continues to defend the war route and has pressured Hamas this Sunday with a greater degree of violence so that it releases them and that, at the same time, the group is disarmed and its leaders leave the strip. “It works because it acts simultaneously,” said the president at the beginning of the weekly meeting with his ministers. “On the one hand, it crushes the military and government capacity of Hamas, and on the other, it creates the conditions for the release of our hostages,” he added only hours after the soldiers failed in the attempt to extract from the enclave the body of one of the kidnapped.
Meanwhile, the intermediary countries between the parties in conflict (Qatar, Egypt and the United States) continue to try to resume the path of the high fire with the exchanges of captives by Palestinian prisoners of Israeli prisons. To the tragedy of the 14 bodies found, the blockade has joined for a month at the entrance of humanitarian aid by the Israeli authorities that coincides these days also with the celebration of the end of the Sacred Month of Ramadan.
The employees of the Gazati emergencies since on Sunday of last week they were “directly attacked by the occupation forces” from the air, they had warned hours before a drip of advertisements began, with identities and photos, as they confirmed the findings. The teams, says the red crescent, were victims of the Israeli army after going to an emergency call to offer first aid in Hashashin. Some were injured and had the communication for a while before they stopped having news of them. “To ignore the whereabouts of our missing colleagues is a deep tragedy, not only for the Palestinian red crescent, but for humanitarian work and humanity as a whole,” added the text.
In a reconstruction of the facts with satellite images of March 25 that has carried out, the group of five destroyed ambulances that integrated the mission next to the arbitrary of a road are observed, surrounded by positions of the occupation troops by several flanks.
The Palestinian Red Crescent “strongly” condemns the attacks against their workers, despite the fact that the institution’s emblem was visible and recalls that their work is protected by the laws under which wars are governed. These “deliberate attacks” suppose “a crime according to international humanitarian law” and Israel “continues to violate these laws with impunity, without taking serious measures to prevent these flagrant violations of international agreements,” denounces the Red Moon.
