Marwan Jilani, the director general of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has said his organisation has seen the “worst moment in the entire history … of this long conflict”, with four emergency workers killed in Gaza.
He said three of the workers were “directly hit” as they attended to the injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza. The fourth worker was “shot straight in the back and through the heart” while responding to casualties in east Gaza near the division with Israel.
Jilani said the group had coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross before their worker went to the border area and were “given the green light”.
“We have never seen such atrocities. We have never seen such a deliberate targeting in this manner of medical professionals who are fulfilling a humanitarian assistance,” he told Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
“Our people were devastated. They were crying. They were hugging each other and they didn’t know what to do, except to wipe the tears and go out again and face those atrocities,” he said.
Source: Aljazeera