Images of mobile phones from the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue staff killed by Israeli troops in an incident in Gaza seem to contradict the version of events proposed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month.
The five -minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday that the phone of one of the killed men was recovered, seems to have been filmed from a moving vehicle and shows a red fire truck and clearly marked ambulances that run at night, using headlamps and flashy emergency lights.
The vehicle stops next to someone else that seems to have driven the road. Two men go out to investigate the stopped vehicle and then the gunfire bursts before the screen turns black.
The Israeli army has said that his soldiers were ‘not randomly attacked’, and insisted that they were shot at ‘terrorists’ who approached them in ‘suspicious vehicles’.
Lt Col Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesperson, said that troops opened fire on vehicles that had no previous permission to enter the area and rode their lights out.
Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one UN employee, were killed in the incident in Rafah on March 23, in which the UN says that Israeli troops “shots” shots and then buried in a mass grave.
According to the Un Humanitarian Affairs Office (OCA), the PRCs and civil defense workers were on a mission to save colleagues who had been shot earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in the Tel Al-Sultan district of Rafah. A red crescent in Gaza said there were indications that at least one person was held and killed because the body of one of the dead was found with his hands tied.
The shootings happened one day in the renewed Israeli offensive in the area close to the Egyptian border after the demolition of a two-month ceasefires with Hamas. Another red crescent in the mission is missing.
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