Israeli executions slashing rescue services, Gaza Civil Defense warns

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
31 Mar 2025 22:03

After 15 medics were found executed by the IOF, Gaza's Civil Defense warns that such crimes aim at ridding the Strip of medical and humanitarian services.

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Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP)

The Civil Defense in Gaza warned of escalating execution-style killings targeting its personnel, following the martyrdom of six of its members and nine paramedics from the Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Rafah, who were found in a deep pit with their hands tied and gunshot wounds over their bodies fired by the Israeli occupation forces.

In a press statement, the agency stressed that these crimes aim to strip Gaza of humanitarian relief services and urged the international community and humanitarian organizations to take "concrete action rather than remain passive observers," emphasizing that such violations constitute war crimes and genocide.

80 Palestinians killed in 48 hours

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that 80 Palestinians were killed and 305 others injured over the past 48 hours as the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian enclave continues unabated.

The ministry reported that on the first day of Eid al-Fitr alone, 53 Palestinians were killed and 189 injured.

This brings the total death toll since the start of the Israeli genocide on October 7, 2023, to 50,357 martyrs, with 114,400 wounded.

More Casualties Across Gaza

On Monday, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza reported that two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent near the Applied College in the al-Mawasi area, west Khan Younis. He also noted that Israeli forces fired intermittently north of al-Qarara town, northeast Khan Younis.

More than 10 Palestinians were martyred and multiple others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the tl-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Additionally, Gaza's Civil Defense reported that eight people, including three children, were killed in an Israeli strike on Yafa Street in the al-Tuffah neighborhood.

In Rafah, one Palestinian was killed and another injured when the IOF targeted a vehicle in the city center.

Meanwhile, two Palestinians were martyred and several others wounded in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Israeli artillery shelling was also reported north of Rafah in southern Gaza.