The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) called for an independent international investigation into the “deliberate killing” of 15 medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by the Israeli forces in Gaza.

In a statement on Monday, the group said that the March 23 attack in the southern city of Rafah in Gaza “constitutes a complete war crime, and reflects a dangerous pattern of frequent violation of international humanitarian law.”

The President of PRCS Younis Al -Khatib said that an independent committee is needed to “establish facts and hold responsibility.”

The Israeli forces opened fire on paramedics, who were driving ambulances to help the wounded people at a former Israeli attack site.

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According to PRCS, the convoy was under heavy fire for five minutes. She said that the communication between the team and the central transmission center “confirms that the shooting continued for a period of not less than two hours” with the continuous shooting until it fully lost contact with one of the doctors.

This was also confirmed by one of the survivors, who said that ambulances were subjected to direct fire without any warning, according to Al -Khatib. Al -Naji also said that the Israeli officers used it as a “human shield” before he could escape.

“It is no longer enough to talk about respecting international law and the Geneva Convention.” “It is now required by the international community and the United Nations Security Council to carry out the necessary punishment against all officials.”

“Who says the truth?”

Al -Khatib also called on the international community to protect relief workers and prevent the targeting of hospitals, medical centers and ambulances.

Israel also asked to reveal the location of PRCS employees who are still missing.

PRCS lost eight of its workers in the attack. Six members of the Palestinian Civil Defense Agency and an employee of the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNRWA.

The Israeli army claimed that its soldiers “did not attack indiscriminately” any ambulances, and insisted that they be launched on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles”.

“Several non -coordinated vehicles that are expected to be expected [Israeli army] Forces without headlights or emergency signals.

But Al -Khatib refuted this claim, saying that ambulances have emergency lights.

Al -Khatib said: “We are used to PRCS on Israel’s wrong allegations and fabricated stories regarding what is happening in the Gaza Strip.”

“We believe that the whole world, including media representatives, is now aware of those who say the truth,” he added.

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In its statement, PRCS said that the area was not classified as a “red zone” at the time of response to emergency, which means that there was no need for prior coordination to reach the site.

He said for several days after that, the Israeli forces prevented the rescue teams from reaching the area on the pretext that it was a “red zone.”

After that, only limited arrival was granted, as PRCS teams regained the body of a member of the civil defense before the Israeli forces forced the rescue team to withdraw.

On March 30, the bodies of 14 others Discovered “The mass grave in a brutal and degrading way violates human dignity.”

This attack was criticized by the civil defense, the government media office in Gaza, the enthusiasm and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Falk Turk, who said the incident was concerned about the possible “war crimes” by the Israeli army.

Meanwhile, Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed its war on their pocket, Israeli air attacks struck “densely populated areas” with “patients who were killed in the family of hospitals, and begged beginners in the killing.”

According to UNOWA, at least 408 relief workers, including more than 280 UNRWA employees, were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that since March 18, at least 921 people have been killed in the region, adding to more than 50,000 people since the war began – most of them children and women.

Violence prompted the heads of the six United Nations agencies to communicate on Monday with an immediate renovation of the ceasefire that broke Israel unilaterally and re -introducing humanitarian aid to Gaza.