(24 Apr 2025)
WEST BANK PARAMEDICS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ramallah, West Bank – 23 April 2025
1. Various of paramedics carrying signs to protest Israel’s killing of eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, a U.N. worker and six members of the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip
2. People at demonstration, sign showing images and text reading reading (English/Arabic):"Martyrs of humanitarian suty"
3. Sign reading (English): "Their souls ask for justice"
4. Protesters, sign behind them reading (Arabic/English): "We demand the immediate release of our forcibly disappeared colleagues"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Younis Al-Khatib, President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society:
"We are standing today again and again to ask for justice for the souls of those killed, the 15 humanitarian workers killed in Rafah. We are asking to stop fire (fighting) in Gaza."
6. Paramedics carrying signs during demonstration
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Younis Al-Khatib, President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society:
"This standing (demonstration) comes in response of the International Federation of the Red Cross, Red Crescent asking all its members throughout the world in solidarity with Palestinian Red Crescent and also asking for the protection of medical workers, of humanitarian workers."
8. Protesters at demonstration
9. Sign reading (English): "Palestine Red Crescent Society"
10. Red Crescent ambulance
11. Headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent, ambulances parked outside
STORYLINE:
Paramedics from the West Bank protested on Wednesday the killing of their colleagues, demanding justice for the 15 Palestinian emergency workers killed last month in Gaza by Israeli forces.
"We are standing today again and again to ask for justice for the souls of those killed, the 15 humanitarian workers killed," said Younis Al-Khatib, the president of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
The demonstration in Ramallah on Wednesday asked for the protection of medical and aid workers.
Eight Red Crescent personnel, six Civil Defense workers and a U.N. staffer were killed in the shooting before dawn on March 23 by troops conducting operations in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Troops bulldozed over the bodies along with their mangled vehicles, burying them in a mass grave.
U.N. and rescue workers were only able to reach the site a week later.
The shootings outraged many in the international community, with some calling the killings a war crime.
Medical workers have special protection under international humanitarian law. The International Red Cross/Red Crescent called it the deadliest attack on its personnel in eight years.
An Israeli investigation into the killings said it found a chain of “professional failures” and a deputy commander has been fired.
Israel at first claimed that the medics’ vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire but later backtracked.
Cellphone video recovered from one medic contradicted Israel’s initial account.
Footage shows the ambulances had lights flashing and logos visible as they pulled up to help another ambulance that earlier came under fire.
The ambulances immediately came under a barrage of gunfire that went on for more than five minutes with brief pauses. Minutes later, soldiers opened fire at a U.N. car that stopped at the scene.
The International Red Cross/Red Crescent called it the deadliest attack on its personnel in eight years.
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