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SvennoJ on 30 March 2025
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US Muslim group calls for probe into killing of Gaza medics


The bodies of the slain emergency workers were brought to Nasser Hospital after they were found buried alongside their ambulances and fire trucks

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on the United Nations to investigate the “massacre” of 15 emergency workers in Gaza, including eight paramedics and a UN staff member.

“The Israeli government must be prevented from committing further atrocities and must be held accountable for the war crimes it has committed with impunity,” CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.

“The United States and the nations of the world cannot allow this crime against humanity to continue.”

As we reported earlier, the bodies of the emergency workers were found buried alongside their ambulances, a week after they went missing under heavy Israeli gunfire.

Who are the Palestinian emergency workers killed by Israel?


People gather around the body of Palestinian paramedic Mohamed Bahloul, one of the emergency workers who was killed in the attack, which the Israeli army only acknowledged after a first body was found

The PRCS says eight of the 14 bodies it recovered on Sunday were of its medics. Five were of missing civil defence workers and the other was a UN employee.

Earlier this week, the body of another civil defence worker was found, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to 15.

One first responder is still missing. His name is Ahmad Nasasra.

The PRCS and Palestinian Civil Defence say it took them days to recover the bodies of their colleagues, and that they were shot at when they tried to find out what had happened to their crew.

The slain PRCS staff have been identified as Mustafa Khafaja, Ezzedine Sha’at, Saleh Moammar, Rifaat Radwan, Mohammad Behloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Mohammad Al-Hila and Raed Al-Sharif.

The slain civil defence crew are Anwar Abdel Hamid Al-Attar, Zuhair Abdul Hamid Al-Farra, Samir Yahya Al-Bahabsa, Ibrahim Nabil Al-Maghari, Fouad Ibrahim Al-Jamal and Youssef Rasim Khalifa.