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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza

Postmortems of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’

People and trucks recovering bodies from ground
The bodies were recovered after Israeli troops buried them in a mass grave in Gaza. Photograph: PRCS

The doctor who carried out the postmortems of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives.

There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza.

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