Video recording was discovered along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Rafa city, Gazan city in late March, and found on the mobile phone of one of the ambulances and fire trucks that were travelling in, showing that there was emergency signal lights when Israeli forces collided with gunfire intensity.
Officials from the Palestinian Red Crescent Association said they presented nearly seven minutes' record to the UN Security Council at a press conference on Friday at the United Nations, which was eased by the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red March Association.
Israeli Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nadab Shoshani said earlier this week the Israeli forces did not “randomly attack” the ambulances, but they were identified as “double progressing” at Israeli forces without headlights or emergency signals, prompting them to fire. Colonel Shoshani said nine of those killed earlier in the week were Palestinian extremists. Israel did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the video.
The Times obtained video from a senior UN diplomat who was asked not to be identified so that they could share sensitive information.
The Times confirmed the location and timing of the video. Photographed from inside the front of the moving vehicle shows a convoy of ambulances and fire trucks, headlights and flashlights lit, and early in the morning, running south along the north road of Rafa. The first rays of the sun can be seen, and the birds are chirping.
The fleet will stop when they encounter a vehicle heading towards the side of the road. One ambulance was dispatched early to assist injured civilians and was under attack. The new rescue vehicle was detoured to the side of the road.
Rescue personnel, who can see at least two people wearing uniforms, are seen exiting the ambulance marked with the fire truck and a red crescent moon crest and approaching the ambulance.
The sound of a fierce gunfires then erupts.
A barrage of gunshots is seen and heard on video of him being attacked by a convoy.
The camera shakes and the video gets darker. However, the audio lasts for five minutes and the rats of the shooting never stop. Arabic says that there are Israelis on the ground.
Filming of the paramedic is heard in video, reciting again and again “Shahada,” Or a Muslim declaration of faith. People recite when they face death. “There is no other god than God. Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic said. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he will die.
“Mom, please forgive me. This is the path I chose – to help people,” he said. “Araf Akbar,' God is wonderful, he says.
In the background, we hear a fuss of voices from workers and soldiers screaming orders in Hebrew from each other. It was not clear what they were saying exactly.
Nevarfalsaf, a spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Association, said in an interview with Ramallah, the city on the west bank of the Jordan River, that the paramedics who filmed the video later found a bullet in the head at a mass grave. His name has not been revealed yet. Because he has a relative living in Gaza who is concerned about Israeli retaliation, a UN diplomat said.
At a press conference held at the United Nations headquarters, Dr. Yunis Al-Kativ, president of the Palestinian Red Crescent Association, and his aide Mawan Jirani, told reporters that the association had gathered — evidence that included video and audio from the incident, as well as forensic examinations of the body. Event Version
The death of the aid worker who first disappeared on March 23 has drawn recent international scrutiny and condemnation. The United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent said aid workers were not carrying weapons and were not threatened.
“Their bodies are targeted from very close ranges,” Dr. Katib said, adding that Israel has not provided information for days on where the missing medical professional is located. “They knew exactly where they were because they killed them,” he said. “Their colleagues were suffering, their families were suffering. They kept us in the dark for eight days.”
Five days after the rescue vehicle was attacked and silent, the UN and Red Crescent negotiated with Israeli forces to negotiate for a safe passage to search for missing people. On Sunday, rescuers discovered 15 bodies. Most were shallow mass graves, finding crushed ambulances and vehicles marked with the UN logo.
Areas where the convoy halts on video were captured on satellite images a few hours later and analyzed by the Times. At that point, five ambulances and fire trucks had been moved off the road and gathered together.
Two days later, new satellite images from the area showed that the vehicle was clearly buried. Next to the disturbed Earth are three Israeli military bulldozers and excavators. Additionally, bulldozers set up dirt barriers on the roads in both directions from the tombs of the masses.
One member of the Palestinian Red Crescent is still missing and Israel has not said whether he was in custody or killed, Dr. Khatib said.
Dr Ahmad Dya, a forensic doctor who examined several bodies at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, said four of the five aid workers he examined had been killed by multiple gunshots, including his head, torso, chest and joints. One paramedic employee from the fleet's Red Crescent was taken into custody and released by Israeli forces, providing a description of a witness for the Israeli shooting in the ambulance, the United Nations and the Red Crescent Association said.
Dylan Winder, representative of the United Nations International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, called the incident an outrage, and described it as the only fatal attack on workers in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society anywhere in the world since 2017.
Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the parliament had to conduct an independent investigation into the murder of Israeli aid workers, and the incident “surges further concerns about the Israeli military's commission on war crimes.”
Neil Collier, Sanjana Varghese and Ephrat livni Reports of contributions. Natalie Lenaud Contributed video editing.
