Palestinian paramedic describes Israeli attack that killed 15 colleagues

A Palestinian paramedic who witnessed an Israeli attack that killed 15 of his colleagues says soldiers fired directly at emergency vehicles, leaving them riddled with bullets and stained with blood.

Munther Abed, a volunteer with the Palestine Red Crescent, had been responding to an emergency call near Rafah in southern Gaza on March 23 when Israeli troops detained him. Moments later, he saw them unleash gunfire on a convoy of ambulances, Al Jazeera reported.

“I could see the vehicle of the civil emergency. The soldiers began shooting at the vehicles, they fired heavily,” Abed recalled. “It was dark and I couldn’t see what happened to the people there.”

According to the Palestine Red Crescent, Abed is the “lone survivor” of the assault. The fate of one missing paramedic remains unknown.