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Israeli killing of Gaza medics

The Palestinian Red Crescent has firmly rejected an Israeli military report on the killing of over a dozen Gaza emergency workers last month, which the regime claimed were mistakenly killed. The Red Crescent dismissed Israel’s report as invalid and unacceptable, stressing that it was full of lies. It added that the report is aimed at justifying the killings and shifting blame to a field command error, while ignoring the real facts. On Sunday, the Israeli military claimed there were “several professional failures” in the killing of emergency responders in Gaza, saying an army commander would be dismissed. On March 23, fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers were shot dead near Rafah in southern Gaza. Their bodies were discovered a week later in a shallow grave by UN officials and the Red Crescent. A video recovered from a victim’s phone showed uniformed medics and clearly marked ambulances with flashing lights being fired upon by Israeli forces.

Plight of Palestinian abductees

Another Palestinian abductee has died in Israeli custody amid the regime’s ongoing violations against prisoners. According to Palestinian civil rights groups, 49-year-old Nasser Khalil Radaydeh was transferred from Ofer Prison to Hadassah Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His death brings to 65 the number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli jails since October 2023. Last week, a 20-year-old Palestinian abductee died at Soroka Hospital, in the southern occupied territories. The Hamas resistance movement has condemned Radaydeh’s death, accusing Israel of slowly killing Palestinian abductees in its jails. Hamas described the conditions endured by Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons as an example of war crimes. The movement called for international action to pressure Israel to end its violations against abductees and hold its leaders accountable.

US aggression against Yemen

At least 12 civilians have been killed and over 30 others injured after a fresh US airstrike targeted the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. The deadly aggression struck a crowded market in al-Farwa neighborhood in the Sha'ub district. The death toll is expected to rise as many people are still trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed in the attack. Other parts of Sana’a, including the Attan area and al-Wahda District, were also the scene of violent American airstrikes. Separately, US strikes targeted areas in the Sa'ada governorate, in the country’s far-north, the central governorate of Ma’rib, and Hudaydah in the west. The US military has been carrying out almost daily attacks on Yemen for the past month, claiming that they are aimed at stopping the Ansarullah movement’s attacks on Israel-related ships. The Yemeni army, however, says it will not stop its attacks on Israel-bound vessels until the regime halts its Gaza aggression. Some two-hundred people have been killed in the US aggression against Yemen since March.

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