The President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Dr. Younis Al-Khatib told reporters in New York that he had presented audiovisual evidence and had urged the Security Council “to support the call for an independent and thorough investigation” following the discovery of the bodies of eight missing medics from the PRCS in a mass grave in Gaza.

According to the he International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) an emergency medical team of nine disappeared along with their ambulances after they came under heavy fire in Al-Hashashin on 23 March. After seven days, the bodies of ambulance officers Mostafa Khufaga, Saleh Muamer and Ezzedine Shaath and first responder volunteers Mohammad Bahloul, Mohammed Al-Heila, Ashraf Abu Labda, Raed Al Sharif and Rifatt Radwan were retrieved. Ambulance officer Assad Al-Nassasra is still missing.