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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Vivian Yee |Christoph Koettl |Bilal Shbair
CAIRO — The paramedics and rescue workers killed in an Israeli shooting in the Gaza Strip last month died mainly from gunshots to the head or chest, according to autopsy reports obtained by The New York Times. Israeli troops had fired on ambulances and a fire truck sent by the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Civil Defense, according to witness accounts, video and audio of the March 23 attack.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair |Christoph Koettl
The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in a March 23 attack on an ambulance and fire truck. The paramedics and rescue workers killed in an Israeli shooting in Gaza last month died mainly from gunshots to the head or chest, while others had shrapnel injuries or other wounds, according to autopsy reports obtained by The New York Times.
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2 weeks ago | 
spokesman.com | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
CAIRO — It was still dark out when a group of ambulances and a fire truck dispatched by Palestinian emergency response services slowed to a halt in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, early on March 23. They had been sent to find their paramedic colleagues, who had headed out in an ambulance on a rescue mission earlier that morning before disappearing. The convoy stopped next to the missing ambulance, which stood by the side of the road near some United Nations warehouses.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.alahednews.com.lb | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
By Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair, NYT
It was still dark out when a group of ambulances and a fire truck dispatched by Palestinian emergency response services slowed to a halt in Rafah, the southern-most city in the Gaza Strip, early on March 23.
The group had been sent to find their paramedic colleagues, who had headed out in an ambulance on a rescue mission earlier that morning before disappearing.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
The two men’s accounts appear to support those accusations. Although their stories could not be independently confirmed, details they gave also matched the sequence of events in a video obtained and verified by the Times, discovered on the mobile phone of one of the dead paramedics. That video shows an intense barrage of gunfire hitting the convoy just as dawn breaks. Loading“I wasn’t blindfolded – I saw everything clearly,” al-Bardawil said. “The medics got out to inspect the damaged ambulance.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
As they drew nearer, Mr. Abed suddenly heard a barrage of shots hitting the ambulance, he said. Everything died instantly: the interior lights, the siren, the engine. Then he heard a sound he knew from experience - a death rattle, he called it - coming from his two colleagues in the front One was a fellow paramedic, Ezzedine Shaath, and the other was the driver, Mostafa Khafaja. Outside the ambulance, he could hear people speaking Hebrew, he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair |Adam Rasgon
GAZA STRIP – In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to four witnesses. The march on April 2 appeared to be the latest of a handful of such protests that have broken out in the last two weeks, despite Hamas’ efforts to suppress dissent with threats and shows of force.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair |Adam Rasgon
"We're persecuted by both sides," he said. "Israel bombs us without mercy and Hamas doesn't care if we die."Mr. al-Masri said that several of his cousins had also received Hamas threats after recent marches. One received a phone call from a private number summoning him to meet on Tuesday with Hamas security officials, who interrogated him about his involvement, asked about protest supporters and organizers, and forced him to sign a document saying he would stop protesting, Mr. al-Masri said.
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3 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Vivian Yee |Bilal Shbair
After a two-month truce, Israel resumed bombing in mid-March, destroying buildings like this one in central Gaza City, in March. Photo / Saher Alghorra, The New York TimesThe Abu Teirs thought the Israel-Hamas cease-fire might mean they could start to rebuild their lives. But a new round of Israeli airstrikes dashed those dreams.
