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

Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, witnesses say

People stand around bodies wrapped in shrouds
Funerals are held at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis for eight health workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent killed in the Israeli attack. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock

Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two witnesses.

The witness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

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