The Red Cross says the missing paramedic is detained by Israel

The Palestinian paramedic who went missing after an Israeli attack, which killed 15 more ambulances in Southern Gaza three weeks ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

The ICRC confirmed in the statement that it “received information” that the Palestine-Red Society of the Crescent (PRC), Medic Assad al-Nasasra, was “in the Israeli place of detention”.

Israeli troops after the attack after the attack and called for his immediate release, Mr. Nasas “forcibly abducted” by Israeli troops.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have not confirmed their detention. A press secretary said he was aware of his location.

The bodies of eight medical sciences, six civil defense respondents and UN employee were found buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Rafa, a week after their convoy came under the fire from Israeli troops.

Another PRCS doctor survived and said his troops were released after the detention of about 15 hours.

China said the incident is a “full military crime”, accusing Israeli for “deliberate attacks” on his staff and their ambulances when they responded to a call to help donate.

He called for an independent international investigation of the incident and for those responsible.

Last Monday, IDF said the preliminary investigation showed that the troops “opened fire from a perceived threat after a preliminary meeting in the area, and that six dead people killed in the incident were recognized by Hamas terrorists without giving evidence.

The Palestinian Red Crescent has rejected the accusation, as did other surviving paramedics.

Initially, IDF stated that his troops fired on “suspicious vehicles” traveling in the dark with their headlights and emergency lights.

Later it is said that the accounting was “mistaken” after a video found on the Medic Rifaat Radwan mobile phone, which was in the same ambulance as Assad al-Nasasra, showed that the convoy uses its emergency lanterns.

At the end of the ambulance video, they see that the road is stretched. The sound of shooting can then hear that Radun comes out of his ambulance. It lasts for more than five minutes, and Radun hears as they say about his latest prayers before the Israeli soldiers are approaching.

Audio analysis using BBC Check the frames that found that Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during the attack, some shots are taken as 12 m (39 feet).

A statement published on Sunday said: “The Red Cross International Committee informed that Israeli professional bodies informed Medic Assad Assad Al-Nassasra.

“His fate remained unknown because he was aimed at other PRCs doctors in Rapha.”

It adds: “We urge the international community to press on the occupation bodies to immediately release our colleague Medicus Assad, who was forcibly abducted while performing his humanitarian duties.”

The Press Socialist of the People’s Republic of China told The New York Times, Mr. Nasas worked in China for 16 years and was married to six children.

ICRC press -secretary said she reported about the Nasasri and China family after receiving information about his location.

It noted: “ICRC was not provided access to the al-Nasasry Assad visit. ICRC could not visit any Palestinian detainees held in Israeli detention sites since October 7, 2023.”

The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.

Since then, more than 50 940 people have been killed in Gaza, the Ministry of Health reports.