Gaza - Saba:
Autopsies conducted on the bodies of 14 of the 15 aid workers killed in the Gaza Strip on March 23 revealed that most of them were shot multiple times.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the autopsies of 14 of the 15 martyrs showed that most of them were shot in the head or chest.
The newspaper added that autopsies were conducted earlier this month by the head of the forensic medicine unit in Gaza.
Israeli forces opened fire on ambulances and a fire truck sent by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Civil Defense to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to eyewitness accounts, video clips, and audio recordings of the attack on March 23.
Israel acknowledged carrying out the attack, which killed 15 men, including 14 paramedics and a UN employee who drove past after shooting the others.
Israeli soldiers buried the bodies in a mass grave, crushing the ambulances, fire truck, and UN vehicle, and burying them as well.
The Israeli military offered varying explanations for why its forces fired on the emergency vehicles. It said, without providing evidence, that some of the dead were Hamas members and confirmed that it was investigating the incident.
The tragic incident sparked widespread international condemnation, with experts describing it as a war crime.
The British newspaper, The Guardian, revealed in a report published last Saturday that an Israeli army unit was involved in the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defense personnel in the Gaza Strip last March in the city of Rafah, south of the Strip.
The newspaper reported that the Israeli forces involved belonged to the Golani Brigade, one of the five infantry brigades in the Israeli army, and operated under the command of the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, which is part of a division commanded by Brigadier General Yehuda Wach, a notorious Israeli general who has previously been accused by some of his soldiers of "disregard for human life."
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