Gaza aid workers face grave situation

Medical and humanitarian workers in Gaza faced a grim reality on Sunday as the Palestine Red Crescent Society retrieved 15 bodies, including eight of its own staff, a week after losing contact with them.

The recovery came just a day after the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies called for "urgent access and information following seven days of silence on the fate of nine medics in Gaza".

It said the crew came under heavy gunfire while responding in the Al-Hashashin area of Rafah in the early hours of March 23.