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  'We collected his body instead of celebrating Eid,' says mother of Gaza medic killed by Israel Rifaat Radwan filmed the incident in which he and 14 other emergency workers were shot dead by Israeli troops "My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed," says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza last month. Rifaat Radwan, 23, was travelling in a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance in a convoy of emergency vehicles when it came under fire on the outskirts of Rafah on 23 March. "I never expected him to be killed, especially since the area was classified as 'green', meaning safe and open to ambulances," she adds. The Israeli military initially claimed the troops opened fire because the convoy approached them "suspiciously" in darkness without headlights or flashing emergency lights. However,  video filmed by Rifaat and...

  US special envoy meets Putin as Trump urges Russia to 'get moving' on Ukraine ceasefire Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Library in St Petersburg US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday, as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to "get moving" on a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Kremlin said the meeting lasted for more than four hours and focused on "aspects of a Ukrainian settlement". The talks, Witkoff's third with Putin this year, were described by special envoy Kirill Dmitriev as "productive". Trump has expressed frustration with Putin over the state of talks. On Friday, he wrote on social media: "Russia has to get moving. Too many people ere [sic] DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war." It comes as Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg denied suggesting the country could be partitioned. The Times said that, during an interview with the paper, Kell...