Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27943543

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem, Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, and Julian Borger
Mon 31 Mar 2025 10.24 EDT

"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.

According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied."

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
    311·
    3 days ago

    And nothing will be done.

    I’m so tired, just trying to keep up.

    I don’t know how any Gazans can bear to live under this.

    They need help. They need hope.

    How long must this continue? How long will the “free world” continue to allow this?

    😫

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        I suppose the quotation marks are pretty loaded these days…

        But honestly, when you’ve lived on the other side of things… as bad as it gets in the “West”… many people will still sacrifice everything to make their way there, where a better life might be found… even if many of those countries are actively trying to keep immigrants out… 🫤