The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday that Israeli authorities had rescued a Palestinian emergency responder who had gone missing in late March after 15 humanitarian workers were killed in Gaza in an incident that attracted widespread outrage.
Asaad Al-Nsasrah, a PRCS staff member, went missing after 15 paramedics and other rescue workers were killed on March 23 in three consecutive shootings at the same location near Rafah in southern Gaza.
The 15 were buried in a small grave near their damaged vehicles, and their bodies were discovered a week later by United Nations and PRCS officers.
The military initially said soldiers had opened fire on vehicles that approached their position “suspiciously” in the dark without lights or markings.
It said they killed six fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were travelling in Palestinian Red Crescent vehicles.
On April 20, the Israeli military said a review into the killing of emergency responders in Gaza found there had been “several professional failures”.
It said a deputy commander, a reservist who was the field commander, would be dismissed from his position for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report.
