Israeli forces are accused of executing 15 first responders who were found buried under their crushed ambulances

Israeli forces have been accused of executing handcuffed Palestinian medics before burying them in a mass grave underneath their crushed ambulances in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

Fifteen humanitarian workers went missing last week after responding to a distress call from civilians being attacked by Israeli forces.

The workers include eight paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), six members of the Palestinian Civil Defence search-and-rescue teams, and one UN staff member.

They were found over the weekend in a mass grave with at least around 20 multiple gunshots in each one of them, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

At least one of them had their legs bound, another was decapitated and a third topless, he added.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    49·
    2 days ago

    Isn’t it far* older than that? Didn’t Israel commit the main genocide in the Old Testament? Religious people tell me that’s a historical document.

    To me, this same holy war has been raging for millennia and I really wish we’d outgrow it.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think it’s fair to tie history that far back to current people. Maybe it’s context for what’s going on now, idk, but it’s wrong to point to it as some sort of gotcha.

      There’s more than enough damning history just looking back one week.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        It wasn’t meant as a gotcha, just an observation that they didn’t learn from the Nazis, near the same holy war has been going for a really long time with a few names changing, and it’s tiresome.

        • cogman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          This is a misunderstanding of how modern Israel got to its current state.

          There were Jews in Palestine before the state of Israel was established.

          The issue isn’t some ancient conflict, it’s that without working with the natives of the region, the British government and UN unilaterally declared that they were making a colonialist ethnostate and took land from the native population for that purpose.

          This isn’t some biblical tale as old as time. The region was (relatively) peaceful.

          It’s very similar the gigantic fuck up of the India Pakistan split based on religion.

          As it turns out, religious ethnostates established by the displacement of natives creates a huge cluster fuck.

          And even with all that, things are as bad as they are today because over the last 3 decades Israel has used every conflict as a tool to militarize and isolate Palestinians.

          Palestinians aren’t blameless, but they’ve been blamed enough for the problems of Israel. Much like the IRA’s bombings were uncalled for, that doesn’t mean Britain wasn’t to blame for a lot of the problems of Ireland.

          • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Not that Britain was blameless here, but they didn’t really have a choice. The Zionist terrorists were going to take country by force, so Britain/UN just capitulated, legitimising and putting in power that group.