The Palestine Red Crescent Society said 15 medics and rescuers killed by Israeli forces last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”.

Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Red Crescent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, told journalists in Ramallah that an autopsy revealed that “all the martyrs were shot in the upper part of their bodies, with the intent to kill”.

“We call on the world to form an independent and impartial international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of the deliberate killing of the ambulance crews in the Gaza Strip,” Khatib said.