Ahmad Dhaher, a forensic consultant who examined five of the dead at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis after they had been exhumed, said all of them had died from bullet wounds.

“All cases had been shot with multiple bullets, except for one, which could not be determined due to the body being mutilated by animals like dogs, leaving it almost as just a skeleton,” Dhaher told The Guardian

1. “Preliminary analysis suggests they were executed, not from a distant range, since the locations of the bullet wounds were specific and intentional,”
2. “One observation is that the bullets were aimed at one person’s head,
3. another at their heart,
4. and a third person had been shot with six or seven bullets in the torso.”
5. He emphasized that there was room for uncertainty due to the decomposition of the remains,
6. and that in other cases he reviewed “most of the bullets targeted the joints, such as the shoulder, elbow, ankle, or wrist”
7. there was no clear evidence of restraints on the five bodies he examined.

Who verified the credibility of these — Two witnesses to the recovery of the bodies told The Guardian on Tuesday that they had seen bodies the hands and legs of which had been tied, suggesting they had been detained before their deaths.

A Red Crescent spokesperson, Nebal Farsakh, said on Wednesday that one of the paramedics “had his hands tied together with his legs to his body”.
Dhaher said: “I could not recognise any tying marks on their hands due to the state of decomposition of the five cases I checked, so I can’t be sure of it,”