Israel’s army has accepted its early account of a deadly strike, killing 15 emergency workers in Gaza, “wrong”, after the emergence of video footage unlike its claims.
The murder took place on 23 March during Israeli military operations, near Rafah in the oil al-Sultan district of Southern Gaza.
According to the news agency Associated Press, the Israeli army initially said that its soldiers set fire because the convoy, which includes the convoy, is included Palestinian Red Crescent The ambulance, civil defense vehicle and a United Nations car, were coming to “suspects” without headlights or emergency signs.
However, the phone footage taken by one of the slain medics shows that vehicles clearly used to shine emergency lights and visible people.
A six -minute video was recovered from a dead paramedic pocket and verified by a living colleague, the convoy already reached the hit ambulance. The gun pellet without warning, lasts for more than five minutes. “Forgive me, mother. This is the way I chose, mother, to help people,” the video can be heard saying before the video is over.
Eight Red Crescent Staff, six civil defense activists and an United Nations employee were killed. A drug, Asad al-Nasasara, is missing. A living paramedic, Munjar Abed, told AP that he was beaten, snatched and questioned by Israeli soldiers, who had also shot at the upcoming vehicles.
According to BBC, Israeli defense force (IDF) now admits that the convoy had light and says that the earlier report was based on the wrong area reports. It also admits that paramedics were unarmed, but it continues to allege that some were associated with Hamas.
An Israeli military officer claimed that the soldiers misunderstood Medics for the terrorists as the convoy stopped near the car first used by Hamas. The IDF also buried bodies and vehicles the next day, saying that it confirms “to clean the road” and “protect the bodies from wild animals”. United Nations personnel highlighted the site a week later.
Jonathan Wohital of the United Nations Humanitarian Office (OCHA) in Gaza dismissed Israeli claims that Medix had militant relations, said, “He was buried in his uniform with his gloves. They were ready to save life.”
Palestinian Red Crescent and many international organizations are now calling for an independent investigation. “We do not rely on any army investigation,” said PRCS President Yangs al-Khatib at the United Nations.
According to the United Nations, more than 150 emergency respondents and more than 1,000 health workers were killed in Gaza as the conflict increased in October 2023, when Hamas attacked a cross -border in which 1,200 Israel was killed. Israel’s military response has since lost more than 50,600 people in Gaza, which is according to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry.
