Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter in Gaza

Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life

Asaad Al-Nsasrah, a paramedic with the Red Crescent whose colleagues were killed by the Israeli army in southern Gaza, arrives at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, after being released from an Israeli prison. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has detailed the harrowing account of one of its paramedics, who told the organisation he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were still clinging to life.

Asaad al-Nasasra, 47, was one of two first responders to survive the 15 March attack on a convoy of emergency vehicles in which 15 other medics and rescue workers were killed.