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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger

‘I heard them take their last breath’: survivor recounts Gaza paramedic killings

Red Crescent paramedics hugging colleagues
Red Crescent paramedics hugging colleagues after the killings. ‘We entered this field out of love, despite the dangers,’ Abed said. Photograph: Ocha/Red Crescent

A survivor from a massacre of Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza has said he saw Israeli troops open fire on a succession of Red Crescent ambulances and rescue vehicles and then use a bulldozer to bury the wreckage in a pit.

Munther Abed, a 27-year-old Red Crescent volunteer, was in the back of the first ambulance to arrive on the scene of an airstrike in the Hashashin district of Rafah before dawn on 23 March, when it came under intense Israeli fire. His two Red Crescent colleagues sitting in the front were killed but he survived by throwing himself to the floor of the vehicle.

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