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Sky News has gained rare access to the warzone that is northwest Syria, now also hit by devastating earthquakes.

Children were found dying and others have been left mutilated after a string of delays by the international community to help the last-remaining opposition area.

The Sky team have visited the area twice, most recently spending another 48 hours inside the rebel-held area where an Islamist militant group is in control, and which was hit most badly by the string of earthquakes and multiple aftershocks and tremors over the last two weeks.

We found a string of babies born prematurely to mothers who were caught up in the earthquakes and whose tiny newborns are now only just clinging onto life with little aid and sparse, antiquated equipment.

We also saw children who are the sole survivors in their families but left with catastrophic injuries and others with life-changing amputations whose futures will never be the same.

There are whole towns and villages now living rough, in tents or with relatives and few, if any, belongings to their name.

And most worryingly, there’s a collective burgeoning anger and despair directed against the international community – particularly the United Nations – who they believe delayed getting help to them and sacrificed their children’s lives.

As aid and rescue teams from all over the world poured into Turkey immediately after the earthquake, in Syria they were left to fend for themselves.

It took more than four days for the first trickle of UN relief to arrive in northwestern Syria.

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A doctor checks on a baby at the Shams hospital

It was far too late for many, and these small convoys didn’t bring with them any of the heavy lifting equipment or rescue experts that could have made a difference to those still trapped under the rubble.

We saw a small scrap of a boy called Arsalan – which means “lion” in Arabic – struggling with every breath he gulped to stay alive.

The three-year-old was the only one of his family to survive the huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the region on 6 February.

The civil defence group called the White Helmets struggled to free him and his family for three days.

Arsalan was the only one of his family to survive the earthquake
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Arsalan was the only one of his family to survive the earthquake

One by one they pulled out the family – his mother, his six-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother.

All had perished under the rubble.

‘We have no ICU’

Then the White Helmets saw the outline of a man’s body – it was Suleiman, his father.

He was crouched forward as though he’d used his body to shield his tiny son against the force of the earthquake and the rubble which enveloped them.

The volunteers slowly pulled his lifeless body out. This was the last brave act of a father who desperately tried to give his little boy the best chance of survival and sacrificed his own life to do so.

Arsalan's uncle Izzat Humadi is at his bedside
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Arsalan’s uncle Izzat Humadi is at his bedside

The White Helmets team could see beneath Suleiman’s body, a child’s arm poking out from the grey, stony tomb. As they scraped the rubble away and gently pulled the toddler free, the child opened his eyes, his eyelashes caked in dust, as he was passed along the human chain of rescuers.

“He’s alive, he’s alive,” the cry went up. “Alhamdulillah [thank God].”

It was a miracle anyone from the family had survived after nearly two days of being buried under the rocks and stones of their home, in wintry conditions with no food, water or specialised equipment to help locate and extract them.

The little boy named after a lion was showing enormous survival instincts way beyond his years. Doctors at the Aquabat Hospital on the Turkish border have been working ever since to save him with little specialised equipment and no proper intensive care unit. Not even their own CT scanner.

“We have no ICU,” Dr Sameeh Qaddour told us.

“Our ICU is his uncle and aunt by his bedside all day and night. We can give him some oxygen and painkillers and we’ve performed numerous operations to try to save his legs which are badly affected by crush syndrome.”

The little boy has had a stomach operation too and his bowels are struggling to work. His massive leg wounds are at constant risk of becoming infected and septicaemia setting in.

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Arsalan and Dr Sameeh Qaddour
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Arsalan and Dr Sameeh Qaddour

The doctor is obviously moved by the boy’s spirit to live and how he’s already defied the odds to come this far. “Logically he should not have survived,” he tells the Sky News team.

“But when I see the video (of his rescue), he survived… logically he must not survive! But he survived the first, maybe he’ll survive the next… this is out of (the hands) and logic of medicine.”

The little boy opens his eyes and is responding to his uncle Izzat Humadi who is talking gently to him. “Come on, Arsalan,” he says to his nephew, “Come on, let’s go. Let’s get out of here.”

He’s willing the toddler with all his might to fight death, and cheat it again.

This little boy – and his siblings – were all born into a war which seems to have no end.

They were born into poverty, in an enclave filled with more than four million people who have run away from the fighting and bombing and shelling by the Syrian leader Bashar al Assad.

They’ve known no other life other than one lived in the shadow of war – and now a natural disaster has wiped out the entire family apart from this toddler.

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Street art in Jindiris

‘This is all our responsibility’

Dr Qaddour is emotional as he examines Arsalan.

He’s angry at the lack of help for children like Arsalan and tells us: “Are these children responsible for what Assad is doing? Are they responsible for the borders? Or the international community?

“He’s lost everyone. Every single one of his family. He doesn’t know anything about these politics and he doesn’t care about this and I don’t care about this.

“I want this patient to survive – anyway. I have to give him all the chances. Arsalan survived under the rubble but maybe not survive now – but I have to give him all [the chances] that I can. This is all our responsibility.”

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Dr Qaddour is emotional as he examines Arsalan

The tragedy suffered by Arsalan and his family is not even unique in northwest Syria where they’ve all endured nearly 12 years of war, of constant terror and homelessness, of rebuilding their lives over and over again, sleeping in fields, sheltering in tents, finding and building new homes, only to do it all over again a few months or years later.

It is a war which has gone on so long, an entire generation has been born into it and is growing up in it.

It is a life filled with armed checkpoints, constant battles between the armed stakeholders and shifting territorial claims and gains.

It’s a life inured in depravation and the repetitive uncertainty of shells and bombs. Those in northwest Syria are probably the only section of the global community which felt a bit of relief at the start of the war in Ukraine.

The consequences for them are that it has distracted the Russian support for Bashar al Assad and resulted in far fewer attacks against them as the Russian leader directs most of his military resources against the Ukrainians.

Yet Assad’s jets still flew over the area on the day of the first earthquakes and while we were inside Idlib following the second set a fortnight later, there were rockets being fired into the countryside in Idlib.

‘Why didn’t the UN help us?’

Even in less troubled times, the fear can never completely disappear for the beleaguered people of Idlib.

“Perhaps we should thank Bashar al Assad more than the United Nations in this crisis,” the admin manager of the Aquabat Hospital, Salahedin Abdulsalam tells us.

“Bashar al Assad taught us how to manage a crisis… by bombing us, killing our families, destroying everything.

“But the United Nations did nothing the first four or five days (of the earthquake) and our people died under the rubble and they just asked for permission from Bashar al Assad to help us.” It’s a constant refrain from those we talk to.

A nurse with babies at the Shams hospital
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A nurse with babies at the Shams hospital

“Why didn’t the UN help us when we needed it most?” we keep getting asked.

The neonatal ICU in the Shams Hospital in Sarmada, near the Turkish border is packed with babies born into the world dangerously early as well as others struggling from the long-term denigration of medical facilities because of the war and now the earthquakes.

Dr Munzer al Rammah takes us past little cot after little cot.

“He’s suffering from pneumonia, she is too; he has bronchitis; he has severe dehydration. The main reason is the war,” the doctor tells us.

“Many of these families live in tents and suffer from cold and many more are now living in tents because of the earthquakes so it affects an already bad situation.”

A crying baby at the Shams hospital
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A crying baby at the Shams hospital

‘There is no future for these children’

He takes us to another ward where he shows us the babies caught up in the earthquake.

Two are in adjacent transparent incubator cots. Both were born in the hours after the earthquake as terror and trauma forced their mothers into early labour and expelled them from their bodies a whole month early.

They are fragile and now facing the fight of their short lives to keep breathing and survive in horrendous conditions. They each weigh little more than a litre bottle of water.

They’re pitiful little things. I notice the feeding syringe laying next to one of them called Fatima is almost the same size as her.

She flails around as the nurse, who’s also called Fatima, slowly presses the specialised milk they are feeding her, down the feeding tube which is inserted into her nostril and takes the sustenance straight to her stomach.

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A premature baby fights to survive

She’s blinking up at her nursing saviour. Eight times a day she’s fed just 30ml of milk to try to keep her alive.

But even if the nurses and doctors succeed in building up their strength so they can leave hospital and return to their families, the majority will return to cold tents where their relatives are struggling to feed themselves and there are few choices.

“We see them return here over and over again with illnesses and nutritional problems,” nurse Fatima Khalid tells us.

“There is no future for these children with no school, no education, no proper hospital and not enough food.”

She, like so many here, blames the outside world for their lack of empathy, lack of care, and lack of action.

“If they’d helped us (to get rid of Assad) we might not be like this now. If we were able to get rid of Assad who bombed us and destroyed us, maybe it would be better – and now we have the earthquakes but still, we are here. We are alive. We resist death.”

In Jindiris, a town near Afrin in Aleppo Province in northern Syria, we find families putting up plastic sheeting to shelter against the cold, while others huddle in tents erected among the rubble and piles of rocks which used to be their homes.

Elderly ladies sit near rubble in Jindiris
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Elderly ladies sit near rubble in Jindiris

Jindiris is among the worst hit by the earthquakes whose impact rippled with devastating effects across the border with Turkey.

We see many children scavenging amongst the debris for scraps they can sell or use. And whole families sifting through stones with their bare hands trying to find their IDs, phones or just memories of their dead.

No time for the luxury of grief

Majdolin Ahmed lost the youngest of her four children – a 10-year-old boy called Nebi. He was pulled out of the rubble after two days by his relatives. No one came to help them and there was an air of resignation from them.

Few ever help them. Here, it’s each man, woman and child for themselves. The families are excessively tight-knit here – because family is important in their culture but also because all they have are each other.

Few but Majdolin and his immediate family will mourn the death of Nebi. Everyone in Jindiris seems to have lost someone, sometimes multiple family members.

A boy picks through the rubble in Jindiris
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A boy picks through the rubble in Jindiris

There is a stunned and despairing air permeating every devastated street and broken building or packed tent. Grieving is a luxury they don’t have time for. Survival is sucking up much of their emotions and their reserves of energy now.

“I’m just trying to find my phone so I can have photos of my son,” Majdolin tells us. Tears are welling up as she recounts what happened. Nebi was her baby, her youngest and none of them could do anything to save him. In the same town, there are remarkable tales of defying death.

‘I begged them to cut my leg off’

Reema is one of those who defied death. She’s 14 years old and was trapped under the rubble for three days, her right leg pinned down by concrete and a steel pin through her right ankle.

She tells us how she scrambled to escape the earthquake as her home shook, but the ceiling came crashing down on her as she raced to get out. When she came to she was trapped, her leg crushed and a dead body beside her. He was the guest of one of her neighbours. She screamed for help and could hear her mother and siblings outside.

Reema walking after having her leg amputated
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Reema walking after having her leg amputated

They ran to get help from cousins and uncles and called the White Helmets and anyone who’d help try to free her. Their plea for help was answered by two medics. Together with the White Helmets and little equipment, they burrowed through the concrete and created a tunnel through eight metres of it to reach her.

They spent hours trying to chisel her out while also trying to placate her and reassure her.

“Don’t leave me, don’t leave me alone,” Reema kept crying to them. “Please just get me out of here.”

In the end, she was begging them to cut her leg off so she could get out. “I told them to please cut my leg,” she tells us from her hospital bed, “I had to get out”.

So one by one the medics took turns to crawl inside the cavity which was big enough for just one person at a time, and first they administered painkillers, then anaesthesia and then the amputation was carried out – beneath the rubble. “I don’t remember anything from that,” Reema tells us, “Because they anaesthetised me”.

We watch as she walks on her one leg using a walker. If she continues to heal, she hopes to get a prosthesis in about a month. “This is God’s decision,” she says with a smile, “Who am I to complain?”

A family puts up a tent after their home was destroyed in the quake
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A family puts up a tent after their home was destroyed in the quake

Her family still haven’t told her that her father died in the earthquake. They want her to get stronger before delivering this terrible news. But life is likely to be tremendously hard for Reema living in a war zone with few facilities.

One of the medics who saved her life takes us to her family’s home. The apartment block they used to live in is a mound of uneven broken concrete slabs and rubble. He is the head of the Ambulance Services in Aleppo and his name is Mohammed al Hussein.

“We managed to get to Reema after 20 hours,” he tells us, “It was a really difficult decision to cut her leg. We didn’t want to and did everything to save her. But if we removed the block on top of her, the whole building was going to collapse on her and kill her. So we ended up amputating her leg in the rubble.”

He goes on: “Reema was lucky because we were able to save her. But what of all the other children around here who have not been saved?

“There’ve been so many other ‘earthquakes’ through the years,” he says.

“With bombings and shellings and attacks from Bashar al Assad but no one helped us or our children. And so many have died. No one did anything for us.”

The destruction in Jindiris
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The destruction in Jindiris

Arsalan loses fight he could never hope to win

A few hours after we leave Idlib, we get word from the doctors that their valiant fight to save the little boy named after a lion, has failed.

Arsalan died around the same time of day the earthquake first struck this region, around 4am in the morning, a little over a fortnight later. The miracle they needed to save him eluded them.

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Arsalan died two weeks after the quake

A small group of Canadian doctors is in Idlib trying to prioritise what the area needs when there is so much need here. And they are furious at the lack of swift international help.

“I’m very angry, says Dr Anas al Kassem. “I’ve seen all kinds of injuries and all the crush injuries and it could have saved lives. These are children and it (a quicker response) could have saved their lives… and given them a better outcome”.

“The United Nations should be ashamed of their slow response,” he goes on.

Arsalan couldn’t wait for the response from the outside world. And like so many others, despite fighting so hard, despite defying the odds, despite the tremendous battle by the doctors, he lost a fight he probably could never hope to win. The doctors are now wondering how many more will go the same way.

Alex Crawford reports from Idlib in northwest Syria with cameraman Jake Britton and producers Chris Cunningham and Mahmoud Mosa as well as Guldenay Sonumut based in Turkey.

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‘Liberation day is here’: But what will it mean for global trade?

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'Liberation day is here': But what will it mean for global trade?

“Liberation day” was due to be on 1 April. But Donald Trump decided to shift it by a day because he didn’t want anyone to think it was an April fool.

It is no joke for him and it is no joke for governments globally as they brace for his tariff announcements.

It is stunning how little we know about the plans to be announced in the Rose Garden of the White House later today.

It was telling that we didn’t see the President at all on Tuesday. He and all his advisers were huddled in the West Wing, away from the cameras, finalising the tariff plans.

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Three key figures are central to it all.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the so-called ‘measured voice’. A former hedge fund manager, he has argued for targeted not blanket tariffs.

Peter Navarro is Trump’s senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing. A long-time aide and confidante of the president, he is a true loyalist and a firm believer in the merits of tariffs.

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His economic views are well beyond mainstream economic thought – precisely why he appeals to Trump.

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The third key character is Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary and the biggest proponent of the full-throttle liberation day tariff juggernaut.

The businessman, philanthropist, Trump fundraiser and billionaire (net worth ranging between $1bn and $2bn) has been among the closest to Trump over the past 73 days of this presidency – frequently in and out of the West Wing.

If anything goes wrong, observers here in Washington suspect Trump will make Lutnick the fall guy.

What are Donald Trump’s tariffs, what is ‘liberation day’ and how does it all affect the UK?

And what if it does all go wrong? What if Trump is actually the April fool?

“It’s going to work…” his press secretary said when asked if it could all be a disaster, driving up the cost of living for Americans and creating global economic chaos.

“The president has a brilliant team who have been studying these issues for decades and we are focussed on restoring the global age of America…” Karoline Leavitt said.

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‘Days of US being ripped off are over’

Dancing to the president’s tune

My sense is that we should see “liberation day” not as the moment it’s all over in terms of negotiations for countries globally as they try to carve out deals with the White House. Rather it should be seen as the start.

Trump, as always, wants to be seen as the one calling the shots, taking control, seizing the limelight. He wants the world to dance to his tune. Today is his moment.

But beyond today, alongside the inevitable tit-for-tat retaliation, expect to see efforts by nations to seek carve-outs and to throw bones to Trump; to identify areas where trade policies can be tweaked to placate the president.

Even small offerings which change little in a material sense could give Trump the chance to spin and present himself as the winning deal maker he craves to be.

One significant challenge for foreign governments and their diplomats in Washington has been engaging the president himself with proposals he might like.

Negotiations take place with a White House team who are themselves unsure where the president will ultimately land. It’s resulted in unsatisfactory speculative negotiations.

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Treasury minister: ‘We’ll do everything to secure a deal’

Too much faith placed in the ‘special relationship’?

The UK believes it’s in a better position than most other countries globally. It sits outside the EU giving it autonomy in its trade policy, its deficit with the US is small, and Trump loves Britain.

It’s true too that the UK government has managed to accelerate trade conversations with the White House on a tariff-free trade partnership. Trump’s threats have forced conversations that would normally sit in the long grass for months.

Yet, for now, the conversations have yielded nothing firm. That’s a worry for sure. Did Keir Starmer have too much faith in the ‘special relationship’?

Downing Street will have identified areas where they can tweak trade policy to placate Trump. Cars maybe? Currently US cars into the UK carry a 10% tariff. Digital services perhaps?

US food? Unlikely – there are non-tariff barriers on US food because the consensus seems to be that chlorinated chicken and the like isn’t something UK consumers want.

Easier access to UK financial services maybe? More visas for Americans?

For now though, everyone is waiting to see what Trump does before they either retaliate or relent and lower their own market barriers.

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Bodies still remain among the ‘collapsed and inclining’ buildings in quake-hit Mandalay

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Bodies still remain among the 'collapsed and inclining' buildings in quake-hit Mandalay

A man inside Mandalay has told Sky News bodies remain under “collapsed and inclining” buildings after the Myanmar earthquake – as a woman was freed from rubble after 91 hours.

The local inside Myanmar said many of the structures in the city were wrecked or badly damaged after the 7.7 magnitude quake on Friday, adding: “There are some bodies, some dead bodies, that still remain and other destruction”.

Meanwhile, in a televised address, Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing said the number of dead had risen to 2,719 and is expected to exceed 3,000.

Some 4,521 people have been injured, while a further 441 are missing.

More than 10,000 buildings are known to have collapsed or been severely damaged in central and northwest Myanmar, the World Health Organisation said.

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Before and after: Myanmar earthquake

Smell of dead bodies near destroyed buildings

In Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, which was close to the quake’s epicentre, 50 children and two teachers were killed when their preschool collapsed, the United Nations said.

The local in the city told Sky News that “a lot of local assistance associations like charity groups are still struggling with digging out the corpses, the dead bodies, from the destruction”.

He said that “when we pass near the destructions, the collapsed building or very damaged building, we can smell” dead bodies.

“The smell of the dead bodies after four days… it still remains,” he said, before adding: “For the social assistance association… they need permission [to give aid] especially from the government.

“If they don’t have permission, then they cannot do anything.”

People sheltering in a makeshift tent camp in Mandalay. Pic: Reuters
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People sheltering in a makeshift tent camp in Mandalay. Pic: Reuters

He also said others in Mandalay are struggling after the earthquake, which followed the city being affected by cyclones, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the civil war in Myanmar – where a junta seized power in a coup in 2021.

“Some people, they say they have nothing at all,” the local added. “They have no more home, they have no more belongings, because its already damaged.”

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It comes after the fire department in Myanmar’s capital freed a woman trapped under rubble 91 hours after the building collapsed.

The 63-year-old woman was freed early on Tuesday in Naypyidaw.

As the country continues to recover, a worker from the International Rescue Committee said people fear aftershocks and are sleeping outside on roads or in open fields.

Communities are struggling to meet basic needs such as access to clean water and sanitation, and emergency teams are working “tirelessly” to locate survivors and provide aid, the UN said in a report.

Rescue efforts have been complicated by the civil war, as rebel groups say the junta has conducted airstrikes, even after the quake, while NGOs fear that certain areas could be denied vital supplies.

“Myanmar’s military has a longstanding practice of denying aid to areas where groups who resist it are active,” said Joe Freeman, a researcher with Amnesty Myanmar.

“It must immediately allow unimpeded access to all humanitarian organisations and remove administrative barriers delaying needs assessments.”

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The quake was the strongest to hit the southeast Asian country in more than a century.

In neighbouring Thailand, rescuers are still scouring the ruins of a collapsed, unfinished skyscraper for any signs of life.

“There are about 70 bodies underneath, and we hope by some miracle one or two are still alive,” volunteer rescue leader Bin Bunluerit said.

Six human-shaped figures have been detected by scanners, said Bangkok’s deputy governor, Tavida Kamolvej.

Thirteen deaths have been confirmed at the building site, with 74 people still missing, while Thailand’s national number of dead stands at 20.

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The father of a paramedic killed by Israel in Gaza has told Sky News he would have been on the mission to rescue wounded colleagues, but was ill that day and so his son went instead.

“It was supposed to be me, you know. I was on duty that night but fell ill and sent him in my place.”

Speaking at his son’s funeral, Hassan Abu Hileh said Israel is to blame for the death of Mohammed and the other 14 men.

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paramedic Hassan Abu Hileh who's son Mohammed was killed by Israeli forces
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Hassan Abu Hileh’s son Mohammed was killed when Israeli forces said they ‘opened fire on suspicious vehicles’

“We need protection from the international community. We need protection for medical teams. We are medics-soldiers of duty, not armed fighters. We carry out humanitarian work. If I see someone who needs medical attention, I’m obligated to serve them,” he said.

The bodies of the Red Crescent and United Nations workers went missing around eight days ago. Despite repeated requests to search for them, all denied by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the UN eventually found 14 bodies buried under sand in a mass grave. One is still missing.

They were still wearing their uniforms.

Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Funerals took place on Monday for medics killed in Gaza. Pic: Reuters

The director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza has accused Israel of murdering the emergency workers. “We arrived at the scene of the crime to retrieve the bodies and found that all of them had been shot directly in the upper part of their bodies and buried,” said Dr Bashir Murad.

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“The ambulances were also destroyed and buried.”

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Dr Bashir Murad, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza, said the workers had been shot

The bodies were found in sand in the south of the Gaza Strip in what Jonathan Whittall, Gaza head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, called a “mass grave”, marked with the emergency light from a crushed ambulance.

Mr Whittall posted pictures and video of Red Crescent teams digging in the sand for the bodies and workers laying them out on the ground, covered in plastic sheets.

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Bodies of aid workers found in Gaza

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has denied killing innocent medical workers and said Israeli forces opened fire on suspicious vehicles that were travelling without coordination and in an active combat zone.

“The IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance on March 23,” claimed a spokesman.

“⁠Last Sunday, several uncoordinated vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals. IDF troops then opened fire at the suspected vehicles.

“Earlier that day, cars that did not belong to terrorists were coordinated and passed safely on the same route.”

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We have asked the IDF why the bodies were found in a mass grave but have received no comment.

More than 400 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the UN.

According to the UN, at least 1,060 healthcare workers have been killed in the 18 months since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

The UN is reducing its international staff in Gaza by a third because of safety concerns.

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