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Palestinian aid workers likely shot ‘execution style’, forensic expert says

Members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 31, 2025 [File: Eyad Baba/AFP]

New evidence suggests that some of the 15 Palestinian aid workers killed by Israeli forces in Rafah last week were shot at close range in what appeared to be execution-style killings – an attack the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has described as “one of the darkest moments” of the war.

Forensic analyst Ahmad Dhaher, who personally examined five of the bodies at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital, said the evidence pointed to close-range gunfire.

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