Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) issued a statement on the killing of two of its paramedics by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah, on May 30, 2024, saying the Israeli occupation’s targeting of the PRCS, its teams, vehicles, and facilities constitutes a war crime.
The PRCS has expressed deep sorrow and shock at the killing of its, paramedics Haitham Tubasi and Suhail Hasouna, after the Israeli army deliberate targeted a PRCS ambulance vehicles in the Tel Sultan area west of Rafah, last night, Wednesday.
As elaborated more details about the attack, PRCS said the Israeli warplanes targeted one of three ambulances that were on a humanitarian mission, striking the front of the vehicle and causing it to catch fire.
When the ambulance crew attempted to extinguish the fire, the Israeli occupation soldiers opened heavy fire towards the teams, forcing them to withdraw from the site before they could retrieve the paramedics’ bodies, which were found in pieces this morning.
On this regard, the PRCS demands accountability for the perpetrators of this war crime and an urgent investigation to ensure justice for the victims, affirming that targeting medical teams constitutes a violation of International Humanitarian Law.
Further, the organization denounced the immense world silence on the continued systematic killing of human beings’ in Gaza and those working to protect people there.
The PRCS, also, holds the international community fully responsible for the continued targeting by the Israeli occupation of the PRCS’s teams, facilities, and ambulances clearly marked with the Red Crescent emblem, protected under International Humanitarian Law.
The PRCS calls on the international community and partners in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to take immediate action to protect the PRCS teams and stop the Israeli occupation forces’ aiming at protected persons, including medical teams.
With the killing of Haitham and Suhail, the death toll of PRCS staff who were killed while on Humanitairian duty by Israeli forces has reached 19 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza enclave.
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