In yet another brazen, heinous war crime, the Israeli army has murdered eight medics, six civil defence responders and a UN employee. Their bodies were buried in the sand, and rescuers were prevented from reaching the site for a week in an unscrupulous attempt to obstruct efforts to save and or recover the missing humanitarians.

The first responders were on their way to the Tal al-Sultan district of Rafah to provide emergency medical assistance to injured civilians following Israeli shelling in the area. Instead of facilitating their life-saving work, Israel targeted and mercilessly murdered the medics, destroying four ambulances and fire trucks.

This latest murder of medics brings the total number of healthcare workers murdered by Israel to 1,060. Targeting medical personnel and humanitarian workers is strictly prohibited by Article 25 of the Geneva Conventions and is a blatant war crime, yet Israel continues to flout these laws with impunity. As the world watches in horror and condemns, meaningful action against the rogue state remains absent.

The murder of these first responders was a premeditated war crime and a blatant violation of the International Criminal Court’s statutes, which mandate that countries respect and facilitate medical teams’ work during war time. The paramedics and rescue workers vanished on 22 March after Israeli soldiers targeted their ambulances and........

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