Gaza – Saba:
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced on Sunday evening that the number of bodies recovered from the Tel al-Sultan area in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, has risen to 14. These include eight paramedics from its crew, five rescue crews, and a UN employee who had been missing for eight days after being besieged by Israeli enemy forces.
In a statement reported by the Palestinian News Agency, the Society explained that its crews, along with crews from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and rescue crews, headed to the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood to search for the missing crews. Fourteen bodies have been recovered so far, and efforts are ongoing to search for other bodies.
The organization noted that the bodies of eight of the nine paramedics who went missing eight days ago after coming under heavy gunfire in the Hashashin area of Rafah have been found. The organization explained that the ninth paramedic remains missing and is believed to have been arrested.
The organization noted that the bodies were recovered with difficulty, as they were buried in the sand, and some had begun to decompose.
The organization mourned the martyred paramedics: Mustafa Khafaja, Ezz El-Din Shaat, Saleh Muammar, Refaat Radwan, Muhammad Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Muhammad Al-Hila, and Raed Al-Sharif.
In a press conference held this morning, the Red Crescent Society held the enemy authorities fully responsible for the safety and lives of its nine paramedics, stressing that targeting them can only be considered a premeditated crime punishable under international humanitarian law.
It stated that the enemy has targeted 34 of its ambulances, putting them out of service, since the beginning of the aggression on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli enemy commits daily mass massacres against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, including the execution of medical and rescue personnel and journalists, in the most heinous forms of war crimes and genocide.
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