According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), a Palestinian paramedic who survived a deadly Israeli attack on a group of first responders in southern Gaza last month has been released from Israeli custody.
According to the PRCS, at least 10 Palestinian detainees were among those who were detained on Tuesday and were taken into custody in the Gaza Strip.
After 37 days in Israeli detention, the organization shared footage that appeared to show a clearly emotional al-Nassasra embracing his colleagues on social media.
After the Israeli military fatally shot 15 health workers on March 23, in an attack that drew widespread outcry and calls for an independent investigation, his exact whereabouts were unknown.
According to the PRCS, “He had been detained while performing his humanitarian duties in the Tel Al-Sultan area of Rafah Governorate’s massacre of medical teams.”
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Israeli forces opened fire on the doctors who were driving ambulances to aid Palestinians who were being treated for wounds at the site of a previous Israeli attack, according to the PRCS.
The organization claimed that its team lost communication with it, and Israeli forces blocked access to the incident’s location.
A week later, when UN and Palestinian officials arrived in the area, they discovered a mass grave with bodies and bulldozed ambulances.
According to the PRCS, six members of the Palestinian Civil Defense Team and one UN employee were killed in addition.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society’s statement on March 30 stated that the massacre of our team was a tragedy for both humanitarian work and humanity.
One of the slain doctors’ mobile phones had a video that captured their final moments. Before being shot by Israeli forces, they were inside clearly identifiable rescue vehicles and had highly reflective uniforms.
The Israeli military announced it would investigate the incident in the midst of the international outcry.
It claimed last week that a number of “professional failures” had been identified as a result of its investigation. One soldier was fired, according to the army, and their code of ethics was upheld.
The PRCS criticized the findings made by the Israeli military and demanded an UN body’s independent and impartial investigation.
One of two survivors.
Al-Nassasra, 47, is one of the two people who survived the attack.
Munther Abed, the other survivor, claimed at the time that he witnessed al-Nassasra being bound, captured, and taken away.
According to his son Mohamed, the father of six last spoke to his family the night of the Israeli attack when he vanished, telling them that he was about to break his Ramadan fast with his coworkers.
He didn’t respond when the family tried to call him at dawn the following day, and the PRCS informed them that neither he nor the other emergency personnel could reach him.
Al-Nassasra’s son said Al-Nassasra’s family had always been warned that whenever he set out on a mission, he might not return. Al-Nassasra continued his work throughout Israel’s 18-month war against Gaza, but the family made an effort to avoid thinking about it.
Al-Nassasra’s coworker Ibrahim Abu al-Kass also reported to Al Jazeera that al-Nassasra would always hand out candy to children to encourage them to play somewhere safe, not in the middle of the road.
During the war, Israel has intensified its arrest campaign. At least 9,900 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli detention facilities, including 400 children, according to the Palestinian prisoner support group Addameer.
More than 3,400 people are being held in “administrative detention,” which is an indefinite term that can be renewed for six-month periods.
Before being transported to a hospital in Deir el-Balah’s Deir el-Balah for medical checkups, Al-Nassasra and the ten other detainees were released through the Kissufim checkpoint along with them.
According to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, the detainees who were released from jail, had reported being tortured in “horrific ways” and were in a “bad physical and psychological state.
During the Gaza bombardment, Israeli forces frequently target first responders, humanitarian workers, and journalists.
