The International Rode Cross Federation and the Red Crescent and the UN fail to go to the place to undergo various wounded after Israeli attacks and they were also attacked. “Humanitarian and health workers should never be an objective,” they have denounced.
The Palestine Red Crescent has raised 15 The number Bodies of employees recovered from a common grave in which They were buried with their vehicles After an attack by the Israeli army in the Surroundings of the city of RafáLocated in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The agency indicated in a statement that between the authorities considers eight of its employees, six members of civil protection and an UNRWA employee of the United Nations.
On Sunday 23, the emergency group went to Rafah, after various Israeli bomb attacks, to serve the wounded and to restore bodies. There, five ambulances and a fire truck, in addition to the end of the car arrived, were attacked by the Israeli army and contact with them.
Six days later, the United Nations Office found the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), together with the Red Crescent -Staf, the vehicles converted into scrap, Semi split and after hours of digging they recovered one of the bodies and found another 14 on Sunday.
Of the red crescent, they emphasized that “this massacre” “is a tragedy for the Palestine Red Crescent, but also for humanitarian work and humanity.” “The attack of the occupation against Doctors of the Red Crescent, despite the protected status of its mission and the emblem of the Red Crescent, can only be considered as a war crime under international humanitarian law that continues to violate the occupation before the eyes of the whole world.”
“The world has failed to take serious steps to prevent the occupation from continuing to commit these flagrant violations of international law and conventions against health and humanitarian employees,” he said, before he claimed that those who are responsible for these law “pay accounts” after an “immediate and urgent investigation to guarantee justice of this mass.”
27 Palestinian red crescent workers have already been killed since the start of the Israeli offensive against the enclave.
“In Gaza these murders have become routine,” said the head of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, who demanded “responsibilities”, so that this does not become “in the new standard”. 280 employees of this UN agency have died since the war between Israel and the Islamic group Hamás, October 7, 2023.
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For his part, the interim boss of the United Nations Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA) for Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, emphasized that humanitarian and health workers “should never be an objective” and has indicated that the common pit in which the bodies have been restored “was indicated with the emergency of the bodies.”
“When we finally arrived at the place and discovered a devastating scene: the ambulances, the UN vehicle and the fire truck were crushed and partially buried,” he said, emphasized that all these humanitarian workers were being killed with their uniform, who clearly marked lives, on the way, on the way. ” “This should never have happened,” he added.
Source: EITB
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