Palestine, the Red Crescent, says the missing Gaza crew, either dead or detained Israeli conflict news

Since last week, nine members of the Red Crescent crew have been missing after they were subjected to Israeli fire in Rafah.

The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has condemned Israel for targeting the paramedics because they “are helping their humanitarian mission.”

During a press conference in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Younis Al -Khatib said that the search for nine members of the missing team in Gaza was continuing.

PRCS lost contact with a crew on March 23, after they were subjected to heavy Israeli fire in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Al -Khatib said: “These souls are not just numbers. If this incident occurred anywhere, the whole world would have moved heaven and land to expose this war crime.”

He added that two days ago, the rescue team managed to reach the scene, as crew members, with the assistance of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA), lost the body of a crew, who was buried.

However, rescue teams were unable to investigate whether the remaining crew members are alive.

Al-Khatib said: “There are a number of scenarios for what happened … more than a week after losing communication with our crew-they have been killed or detained by the Israeli occupation forces.”

“Suspicious vehicles”

Last week, the Israeli army told Agence France -Presse that it had called ambulances and fire trucks – describing them as “suspicious vehicles” – which reached a scene in which attacks were carried out.

Al Qaeda’s Hamas Political Office member Naim criticized the ambulance attack and said that “the targeted killing of rescue workers – who protect under international humanitarian law – is a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and the crime of war.”

Tom Fletcher, the president of Usha, said since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed its war on the pocket, and the Israeli air attacks have struck “dense population areas”, with “killing patients in their family in the hospital, and the ambulances that were killed.”

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Saturday that since Israel resumed its attacks, at least 921 people have been killed in the region, adding more than 50,000 people killed since October 7, 2023.

Israel launched its war after Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, when 1139 people died and about 250 people were prisoners in Gaza.