Vivian Yee

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Vivian Yee

Asaad al-Nasasra has not been heard from since the March 23 ambush by Israeli forces, which left 15 aid workers dead and drew international condemnation. A Gaza paramedic for the Palestine Red Crescent Society who has been missing since Israeli forces ambushed a group of ambulances and other aid vehicles in late March is in Israeli custody, the Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Sunday.

1 month ago | gvwire.com | Vivian Yee |Fatima AbdulKarim

CAIRO — The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Monday gave new details of the Israeli attack on its paramedics and other emergency responders in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 15 people last month, saying Israeli forces had targeted them in a “series of deliberate attacks.”Speaking at a news conference in the West Bank, Red Crescent officials said Israeli troops shot at the rescue workers in waves over a two-hour period before dawn March 23.

1 month ago | thenewstribune.com | Vivian Yee |Ameera Harouda

Palestinian men grieve over the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City’s Shajaiye neighborhood on Wednesday. The airstrike on a home killed at least 23 people and left others missing, Gaza’s civil defense service said. SAHER ALGHORRA NYT CAIRO -- An Israeli airstrike on a neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, killed 23 people Wednesday, including eight children, and left more than 70 wounded, Gaza’s Civil Defense service said.

1 month 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.