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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem, and Julian Borger

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Large gathering of people mourn over covered bodies wrapped with the Red Crescent flag.
Funerals held at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis for eight of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society health workers shot dead by Israeli forces. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock

A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN.

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