A video, discovered on the cell phone of a paramedian that was found together with 14 other help operators in a mass tomb in the Gaza at the end of March, shows that the ambulances and the fire truck in which they were traveling were clearly marked and had the lights of the emergency signal when the Israeli troops hit them with a burst of shots.
Palestine Red Crescent Society officials said on Friday in a press conference at the United Nations moderated by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent companies that had presented the registration of almost seven minutes, obtained from the New York Times, to the United Nations Security Council.
An Israeli military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, declared at the beginning of this week that the Israeli forces did not “attacked” an ambulance that randomly attacked, but that several vehicles “were identified by advancing suspiciously” without lighthouses or emergency signals towards Israeli troops, pushing them to shoot. Colonel Shoshani said at the beginning of the week that nine of those killed were Palestinian militants. Israel did not immediately respond to a request for commenting on the video.
The Times obtained the video from a senior diplomat at the United Nations who asked not to be identified in order to share sensitive information.
The Times verified the position and the times of the video, which was brought to the southern city of Rafah at the beginning of 23 March. Filmed by what seems to be the front interior of a moving vehicle, it shows a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, clearly marked, with flashes and flashing lights, guiding south on a road north of Rafah in the first morning. The first rays of the sun can be seen and the birds chirp.
The convoy stops when he meets a vehicle that had been valed on the road side – an ambulance had been sent previously to help the injured civilians and had been attacked. The new rescue vehicles deviate on the side of the road.
The rescue workers, at least two of whom can be seen wearing uniforms, are seen leaving a fire truck and an ambulance marked by the red -sized stammoth and approaches the derailed ambulance to the side.
Therefore, sounds of intense shots burst.
A burst of firearm strokes is seen and listened to the video that strikes the convoy.
The camera shakes, the video becomes dark. But the audio continues for five minutes and the ract-a-tat of shots does not stop. A man says in Arabic that there are Israelis.
Paramedic filming is listened to in the video by reciting, again and again, the “degree,“ or a declaration of Muslim faith, which people play in the face of death. “There is no God if not God, Muhammad is his messenger”, the paramedics feels. He asks God forgiveness and says he knows he will die.
“Forgive me, mom. This is the path I chose – to help people,” he said. “Allahu Akbar“ God is great, he says.
In the background, you can listen to a confusion of voices from assistants for help and soldiers who shout Hebrew commands. It is not clear what they are saying.
The spokesman for Palestine Red Crescent Society, Nebal Farsakh, said in an interview with the western city of Ramallah that the paramedic that filmed the video was subsequently found with a bullet in his head in the mass tomb. His name has not yet been disclosed because he has relatives who live in Gaza worried about Israeli retaliation, said the United Nations diplomat.
At the press conference, held at the United Nations headquarters, the president of Palestine Red Crescent Society, the Dr. Youunis Al-Khatib, and his deputy, Marwan Jilani, told journalists that the evidence that the company has collected, including the video and audio from the episode and on the episode and on the forensic examination of the events-talked about the version of Israel. Israel.
The death of social workers, who disappeared on March 23, has attracted international control and sentence in the last few days. The United Nations and the Red Crescent of Palestine said that the UVE operators did not transport weapons and did not represent a threat.
“Their bodies were targeted by a very close scale,” said dr. Khatib, adding that Israel did not provide information on missing doctors where it is for days. “They knew exactly where they were because they killed them,” he said. “Their colleagues were in agony, their families were in agony. They kept us for eight days in the dark.”
It took five days after the rescue vehicles were attacked and remained silent for the United Nations and the red crescent to negotiate with the Israeli military for a safe passage to look for the missing people. Sunday, the rescue teams found 15 bodies, most in a shallow tomb together with their crushed ambulances and a vehicle marked by the United Nations logo.
The area in which the convoy stops in the video was captured in a satellite image a few hours later and analyzed since the times. At that point, the five ambulances and the fire truck had been moved from the road and grouped together.
Two days later, a new satellite image of the area showed that the vehicles were apparently buried. Next to the disturbed earth there are three Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator. In addition, the Bulldozers erected land barriers on the road in both directions from the mass tomb.
There is still a member of the Palestinian red crescent and Israel did not say if he is detained or was killed, said dr. Khatib.
Dr. Ahmad Dhair, a forensic doctor who examined some bodies in the Nasser hospital in Gaza, said that four of the five help operators who examined were killed by several shots, including head injuries, torso and joints. A paramedical employee of the red crescent in the convoy was detained and then issued by the Israeli army and provided a report of a witness of the Israeli military filming to ambulances, said the United Nations and the Red Crescent Society.
Dylan Winder, the representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Crescent Red companies at the United Nations, defined the accident an indignation and said that she had represented the single fatal attack on the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society Worldrs anywhere in the world since 2017.
Volker Türk, the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, told the Council that an independent investigation must be conducted and that the episode raises “further concerns for war crimes by the Israeli army”.
Neil Collier, Sanjana Varghese AND Ephratar Livni Contributed relationships. Natalie Reneau Video editing contributed.