
The Israeli army was withdrawn on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian doctors by its forces last month after seeing the phone video contrary to its claim that their vehicles had no emergency signals when the troops opened fire on them in the Gaza belt.
The army initially said that it opened the fire because the vehicles were “suspiciously progressing” to nearby troops without paint or emergency signals. The Israeli military official, who spoke late on Saturday provided anonymity in accordance with the regulations, said the account was “wrong”.
The recording shows the red crescent and civil protection teams that slowly ride the lights of their emergency vehicles, visible logos, while withdrawing to help the ambulance that had been under fire earlier. The teams do not seem to act unusual or threateningly as three doctors appear and move towards the affected ambulance.
Their vehicles are immediately under a series of shots, which lasts more than five minutes with short breaks. The phone owner can be heard praying.
“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose, my mother, to help people,” we cry, voice, weak.
Eight red crescent staff, six civil protection workers and UN employees were killed in a shot before dawn on March 23, Israeli troops performing operations in Tel al-Sultan, the district of the southern city of Rafah. The troops were then bulldozed over the bodies along with their tormented vehicles, buried them in a mass grave. The UN and rescue workers could only arrive a week later to dig their bodies.
The Vice President of the Palestinian Society of the Red Crescent, Marwan Jilani, said the phone with the footage was found in the pocket of one of his killed employees. The Palestinian Ambassador of the United Nations distributed the Video Council of the UN Security Council. Associated Press received a Video from the UN diplomat provided anonymity because it was not published.
One paramedic who survived, Munzer Abed, confirmed the truth of the video in AP. Two concrete structures in the form of a bloc visible are also visible in the UN video posted on Sunday, which shows the recovery of the body from the place-sign that they are in the same place.
Asked about the video, the Israeli army announced on Saturday that the incident was “under a thorough examination”.
The head of the Palestinian Society of the Red Crescent, Younes al-Khatib, called for an independent investigation. “We do not believe any military investigation,” he said on the UN on Friday.
One doctor, Assaad Al-Nassasra, is still missing, says the red crescent. Abed said he saw Alsasra take a blindfold to the dual Israeli troops. Al-Khatib said the organization asked the army where the staff holds.
Al-Khatib said the men were “targeted in the immediate vicinity” killed and that the forensic autopsy report would be announced soon.
Israel accused Hamas of moving and hiding his fighters within an ambulance and emergency vehicles, as well as in hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, claiming that he justifies the strike on them. Medical staff largely denies charges.
Israeli strikes killed more than 150 emergency people from the Red Crescent and Civil Protection, most of them while on duty, as well as over 1000 healthcare workers, according to the UN, the Israeli army rarely explores such incidents.
Emergency vehicles headed to Tel al-Sultan at about 3:50 in the morning of March 2, responding to reports of wounded, Jilani said. The first ambulance safely returned with at least one victim, he said. But, he said, subsequent ambulance came under the fire.
His hands were trembling, Abed told AP on Saturday that, as an ambulance had entered the area, the siren lights were lit. “Suddenly I tell you, it was a direct shooting on us,” so intense that the vehicle stopped, he said.
A 10 -year -old red crescent veteran, Abed said he was sitting in the back seat and bent on the floor. He said he couldn’t hear any of his two colleagues in the front seat – the only others in the vehicle. They seem to have been killed immediately.
Israeli troops, some with nighttops, withdrew from an ambulance and to the ground, he said. They made him take off his lingerie, beat him all over his body with a rifle, and then tied his hands behind his back, he said.
They questioned him, asking him about his paramedicin training and how many people were in the infirmary with him, he said. One soldier pressed the muzzle of his automatic rifle into his neck. The other pressed the blade of the knife into Abed’s palm, almost cut, until the third soldier pulled them and warned Abed, “They are crazy.”
Abed said he was a witness to open fire on the following vehicles to arrive. The soldiers forced him to his stomach and pressed the gun in the back, he said, in the middle of the shooting in the darkness, so he could only see two civil protection vehicles.
The telephone video shows the rescue convoy of the Red Crescent and the civil protection vehicle that was sent after the contact was lost with a striking emergency vehicle. Taken from a single -vehicle control panel, shows several emergency vehicles and a fire truck moving down the road through a barren space in the darkness. Emergency lights on their roofs flash all the way.
They come to an ambulance from the side of the road and stop beside her, and their lights still blinking. The Israeli troops are not visible.
“Sir, let them be fine,” the man in the car says. Then he cries, “They throw themselves around the ground!” – Obviously refers to the bodies. Three men in the orange clothing of civil defense can be seen coming out of the vehicle and walking toward the stopped ambulance.
Shot and one of the men seems to fall. The shooting erupted.
The man who holds the phone seems out of the car and to the ground, but the screen becomes black, although the sound continues. The shooting continues for almost five and a half minutes, with long, heavy barges, followed by silence, covered with individual shootings and shouts and screams.
The man with the phone again and again says: “There is no God except God and Muhammad is the prophet of God” – a profession of faith that Muslims say when they fear that they will die. At the end of the six -minute video of 40 seconds, the voices can be heard shouting in Hebrew. “The Jews come,” the man said, referring to Israeli soldiers, before the video interrupted.
The Israeli military official claimed that “no harassment”, and said he did not know why the vehicles were buried. He had no information about the disappeared doctor.
The Israeli army says that after the shooting troops, they found that they had killed the Hamas figure named Mohammed Amina Shobaki and eight other militants. However, none of the 15 doctors killed has that name, and it is unknown that no other bodies were found in place.
The army did not say what happened to Shobaki’s body or released the names of other alleged militants. The Israeli military official said Israel “worked to bring the evidence” that the Hamas operatives were killed.
Jonathan Whittall, a temporary boss in Gaza from the UN Humanitarian Office, rejected the allegations that the killed medical medics were Hamas militants, saying that staff worked with the same doctors in the evacuation of patients from hospitals and other tasks.
“These are crews paramedic I met personally,” he said. “They were buried in uniforms with gloves on. They were ready to save lives.”