Israeli military retreated in its account 15 Palestinian Medics murdered After the phone video last month its forces denied their claims that their vehicles did not have an emergency signal when soldiers set them on fire in the Gaza Strip.
The army initially stated that it set fire as vehicles were “moving suspicious” on nearby soldiers without headlights or emergency signs. Speaking on the condition of an Israeli military officer, on the condition of anonymity, on Saturday night, on the condition of anonymity, the account was “wrong”.
The footage shows the Red Crescent and Civil Defense Teams Gradually, the lights of their emergency vehicles glowing, the logo is visible, as they used to pull up to help the ambulances in the first fire. Teams do not act unusually or threatened as three medics emerge and move to stricken ambulances.
Their vehicles immediately fall under a barrage of bullets, which lasts for more than five minutes with a brief stagnation. The owner of the phone can be heard praying.
“Forgive me, mother. This is the way I chose, mother, to help people,” he cries, his voice is weak.
Eight Red Crescent personnel, six civil defense activists and an employee of the United Nations were killed in the shooting before morning on March 23, operating in Tel-al-Sultan, a district in the city of Rafa city, the southern Gaza city. The soldiers then bullied them over the bodies along with their demands, buried them in a collective grave. The United Nations and rescue workers were able to reach the site only a week later, so that the bodies could be dug.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society Vice President, Marwan Jilani, said that the phone with footage was found in the pocket of one of its killed employees. The United Nations Palestinian Ambassador distributed video to the United Nations Security Council. The Associated Press received a video from the United Nations diplomat on condition of anonymity as it has not been made public.
A paramedic that survived, Munjar Abed, confirmed the truth of the video APTwo block-shaped concrete structures appearing in the video are also seen in a video released on Sunday, which reflects the recovery of bodies from the site-a sign they are at the same place.
When asked about the video, the Israeli Army said on Saturday that the incident was “completely under the exam.”
The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Younis al-Khatib called for an independent investigation. “We do not rely on any army investigation,” he told a briefing at the United Nations on Friday.
A drug, Asad al-Nasasara, is still missing, says Red Crescent. Abed said that he saw Al-Nasasara blindfolded by Israeli soldiers. Al-Khatib said that the organization has asked the army where he is catching the employee.
Al-Khatib said that the slain men were “targeted in the close range” and a forensic autopsy report would soon be released.
Israel has accused Hamas of transferring and hiding its fighters inside hospitals and other citizens with emergency vehicles, as well as hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, arguing that the strike was justified on them. Medical personnel deny large -scale allegations.
According to the United Nations Israeli Army, the Israeli strike has killed more than 150 emergency respondents of Red Crescent and Civil Defense, most of them on duty, as well as over 1,000 health workers also investigated such incidents.
Jilani said that the ambulance started moving towards the oil al-Sultan at around 3:50 pm on 23 March, responding to the news of the injuries, Jilani said. The first ambulance returned safely with at least one casualty, he said. However, he said, the ambulances later got into the fire.
Shivering her hands, Abid told AP on Saturday that as soon as her ambulance enters the area, its siren lights were on. He said, “Suddenly, I am telling you, there was a direct shooting on us,” so intense that the vehicle land for a stop, he said.
A 10 -year -old veteran of Red Crescent, Abed said that he was sitting on the back seat and stuck on the floor. He said that he cannot hear anything from his two colleagues on the front seat – only others in the vehicle. They appear to be killed immediately.
He said that Israeli soldiers, with a few night glasses, pulled the Abdde out of the ambulance and on the ground, he said. He said that he made his underwear a strip, beaten him on his body with his rifle butt, then tied his hands behind his back.
He questioned him, asked him about his paramedic training and how many people were in ambulance with him, he said. A soldier pressed his automatic rifle muzzle into his neck. Another pressed his knife blades into the palm of Abid, almost cut it, until a third soldier drove them away and warned Abed, “They are crazy.”
Abed said that he saw him opening the fire to come on the next vehicles. The soldiers forced him to his stomach and pressed a gun on his back, he said, and between shooting in the dark, so he could only see two civil defense vehicles.
The phone video features a rescue convoy of Red Crescent and Civil Defense Vehicles, which were sent out after contact, which were lost with stricken ambulances. Taken from the dashboard of a vehicle, it shows several ambulances and a fire truck that is running on a road through a barren area in the dark. Emergency lights are shining all the way on their roofs.
They reach an ambulance on the roadside and stop next to it, their lights still shine. No Israeli soldiers are visible.
“God, let them recover,” says a man in the car. Then he cries, “They are throwing around the ground!” – Apparently mention of bodies. In Orange Civil Defense clothes, three men can be seen getting out of vehicles and can be seen walking towards the stopping ambulance.
A shot rings and one of men appears to fall. Passes through bullets.
The person holding the phone appears to be scrambling from the car and on the ground, but the screen turns black, although the audio continues. The shelling lasts for about five and a half minutes, with long, heavy barrage, then individual shots and shouts and screaming.
Throughout, the man with the phone repeatedly says, “There is no God, but the Prophet of God and Muhammad is the Prophet of God” – the profession of faith that Muslims say they are afraid that they are about to die. Six minutes, near the end of the 40-second video, sounds can be seen screaming in Hebrew. “Jews are coming,” the man said, referring to Israeli soldiers before the video cut.
The Israeli military official said “there was no misconduct,” and he did not know why the vehicles were buried. He had no information about the medicine that remained missing.
The Israeli army says that after the shooting, the soldiers determined that they had killed the figure of Mohammad Amin Shobaki and eight other terrorists. However, none of any of the 15 men have a name, and no other bodies have been found on the site.
The army has not stated what happened to Shobaki’s body or the names of other alleged terrorists were released. The Israeli military official said Israel was “working to bring evidence” that Hamas’s operators were killed.
Jonathan Wohital, interim chief in Gaza of the United Nations Humanist Office Och, dismissed the allegations that the slain Medics Hamas was a militant, said that the employees had worked with the same medics first to evacuate the patients of hospitals and other work.
“These are paramedic crews I have found first,” he said. “They were buried in their uniform with their gloves. They were ready to save life.”
Published – 06 April, 2025 07:15 pm IST
