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Country: Israel
City / Location: Rafah, Gaza
Period / Date: 7 October 2023-Present
Subject: Information received concerning the reported deliberate attack by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on 23 March 2025, against civilian medical and emergency personnel, killing fifteen (15) individuals protected under international humanitarian law (IHL), including: eight (8) members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS): Mr. Ashraf Abu Labda, Mr. Raed Al-Sherif, Mr. Refaat Radwan, Mr. Saleh Moammar, Mr. Ezzeldin Shaat, Mr. Mohamed Al-Hila, Mr. Mohamed Bahlul, and Mr. Mostafa Khafaga, six (6) members of the Palestinian Civil Defense, and one (1) United Nations staff member, Mr. Kamal Abdullah Shahtout. The PRCS health workers were on duty wearing and travelling in vehicles clearly marked with protective emblems. Autopsy reports of the eight victims from the PRCS, whose bodies were recovered from a makeshift mass grave on 30 March 2025 – one week after the incident – along with witnesses’ accounts and a forensic analysis of video footage from the event, provide conclusive evidence indicating that the killings were intentional and therefore amount to crimes under international law. After the killings, those responsible buried the bodies of the victims in an unmarked mass grave, destroyed and also buried their vehicles in an attempt to conceal the evidence of the attack. Furthermore, one PRCS volunteer, Mr. Mundhir Abed, was arrested, detained at the site of the attack and reportedly tortured before his release 12 hours later. Another PRCS paramedic, Mr. Asaad Al Nassasrah, was detained during the attack, forcibly disappeared by the IDF and subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment until his release on 30 April 2025.
Number of identified alleged victims: 12

First name last name	age	sex	affiliation
Asaad Al Nassasrah	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Ashraf Nasser Abdel-Hay Abu Labda	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Ezz El-Din Ahmed Shaat	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Kamal Abdullah Shahtout	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Muhammad Hassan Hosni El-Hela	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Muhammad Subhi Mahmoud Bahloul	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Mundhir Abed	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Mustafa Muhammad Hamad Khafaga	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Raed Ibrahim Khalil El-Sharif	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Refaat Anwar Suleiman Radwan	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Saleh Mahmoud Hussein Muammar	adult	male	Humanitarian, solidarity, human rights-related activity
Members of the Palestinian Civil Defence

Total number of unidentified alleged victims: -

Status or occupation	Number and gender

General concerns:

Total number of alleged victims: 12
Related communications:
Previous communications: ISR 4/2024; ISR 3/2026
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