Israeli forces kill Palestinian boy who witnessed Rafah medics massacre

Israeli forces killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who witnessed the mass execution of medics in southern Gaza earlier this year, his father told Middle East Eye.

Mohammed Saeed al-Bardawil was shot dead by Israeli naval forces on 10 May while fishing with his father off the coast of Rafah.

His death came just weeks after he survived the point-blank Israeli execution of 15 paramedics and Civil Defence workers responding to a strike in western Rafah on 23 March. 

In that incident, his father, Saeed al-Bardawil, states he was walking with his son in the Tal al-Sultan area when special Israeli forces suddenly appeared and detained them.

Along with some others, they were stripped, bound and held at gunpoint by soldiers who ordered them to lie face down just metres from a smouldering Red Crescent ambulance that had been struck earlier.

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