A survivor of a massacre involving Palestinian paramedics in Gaza recounted how Israeli troops opened fire on ambulances responding to an airstrike. Munther Abed witnessed his colleagues being shot and later saw a bulldozer burying their vehicles and bodies in a pit. Overall, eight Red Crescent medics, six civil defense workers, and a UN employee were killed. Abed, who survived by shielding himself in the ambulance, is currently the sole survivor to recount the incident, raising concerns about the treatment of emergency services in conflict zones.
He was beaten, detained with his hands tied and made to lie on the ground, from where he was able to see some of what happened as other friends and colleagues arrived on the scene in ambulances and fire trucks, each one running into a hail of gunfire.
His two Red Crescent colleagues sitting in the front were killed but he survived by throwing himself to the floor of the vehicle.
In all, eight Red Crescent ambulance crew members and paramedics, six civil defense rescue workers and a UN employee were killed. Their bodies were found alongside their crushed vehicles last weekend in a sandy pit.
A bulldozer retrieving a crushed vehicle from the pit.
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