The Palestinian Red Crescent announced today that 14 rescuers were found dead who were killed by an Israeli army fire against ambulances in the southern strip of Gaza last week.

“To date, the death toll found is 14. Of these, eight were members of Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews, five were members of the political defense (the Gaza Strip) and one was a worker in the United Nations,” the organization said.

It is not clear to which UN service was working on the 14th victim.

The Red Crescent and Political Defense had lost contact with the rescuers’ teams after Israeli soldiers opened fire on ambulances on March 23. The Israeli army admitted on Saturday that he had put an ambulance against ambulances because he considered them “suspicious”, while Hamas spoke of a “war crime”.

The events unfolded last Sunday in the Tal al -Sultan district, west of Rafa. The Red Crescent argues that the Israeli authorities have prevented a group from entering this zone to seek missing rescuers who have been fire from the Israeli forces.

According to the army’s announcement, “a few minutes” after the soldiers “exterminated many Hamas terrorists” by opening fire to their vehicles, “other vehicles were suspiciously in the direction of the soldiers” who “responded by opening fire to suspected vehicles and vehicles”.

The Israeli army did not specify whether some were shot by these vehicles in the direction of the soldiers.

The preliminary investigation found that “some suspicious vehicles (…) were ambulances and fire extinguishers,” the army added, without further details. He noted only that “the terrorist organizations of the Gaza Strip” repeatedly use “ambulances for terrorist purposes”.