Israeli troops are being accused of killing 15 medics and aid workers from the Red Crescent and other relief groups and then burying them in a “mass grave” in Gaza, according to the United Nations.
The aid workers and their ambulances were found Monday in a hastily dug grave, which was apparently plowed over by bulldozers, the UN said.
The Israeli military said troops fired on the emergency vehicles after they began “advancing suspiciously” towards them.
Israeli officials initially said Israel Defense Forces soldiers had killed Hamas operatives in the attack, but none of the bodies recovered from the site appeared to be armed terrorists, according to the UN and Red Crescent.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society — which has previously been responsible for collecting
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