From AFP News Agency.
Palestinians hold a funeral for rescuers killed a week before when Israeli forces targeted ambulances in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had recovered the bodies of 15 rescuers who "were targeted by the Israeli occupation forces while performing their humanitarian duties as they were heading to the Hashashin area of Rafah to provide first aid to a number of people injured by Israeli shelling in the area". The PRCS said they found the bodies of eight colleagues along with those of six members of Gaza’s civil defence agency and one UN agency employee. One Red Crescent ambulance officer remains missing. In an earlier statement the Red Crescent said the bodies "were recovered with difficulty as they were buried in the sand, with some showing signs of decomposition".
The rescuers were killed on 23 March in Rafah city’s Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, close to the Egyptian border. The Israeli military acknowledged its troops had opened fire on ambulances.
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