Most of the paramedics and rescue workers who were killed in Gaza last month were shot in the head or chest, according to a The New York Times report, Al Jazeera says.

The NYT saw the autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 aid workers killed in the attack, not including one UN worker who was also killed. Israel has admitted to carrying out the attack.

Israeli troops had fired on ambulances and a fire truck sent by the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Civil Defence, according to witness accounts, video and audio of the March 23 attack.

The autopsies were performed by Dr Ahmad Dhair, the head of the Gaza health ministry’s forensic medicine unit, after the bodies were recovered from where Israeli soldiers buried them in southern Gaza in a mass grave, alongside their ambulances.

The attack has sparked international condemnation, with many experts labelling it a war crime.

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