
The Palestinian Society of the Red Crescent on Monday gave new details of the Israeli attack on their paramedics and other ambulances in the gaza belt in which at least 15 people were killed last month, saying that the Israeli forces were targeting them in “a series of intentional attacks.”
Speaking on a press conference On the west coast of the Red Crescent Officers said Israeli troops Shot at rescue workers In the waves during the two -hour period before dawn on March 23, they called the killings a “full -fledged war crime” and invited the United Nations Security Council and the International Community to require responsibility and an independent investigation.
The Israeli army, which has confessed to the murder 15 men, said on Monday that “a preliminary investigation indicated that the troops had opened the fire due to perceived threats after the previous meeting in the area,” and will continue to explore. It said six killed “identified as Hamas terrorists,” but did not cite any evidence.
The Red Crescent and the United Nations said the dead were unarmed auxiliary workers who did not represent any threat. They said that men wear uniforms and ride in the apparently marked ambulance vehicles, flashing their lights for emergency cases.
Israeli military official who met reporters At the incident on Saturday, he refused to say if men were armed.
Also on Monday, the Israeli strike near a hospital in southern Gazi killed two people, including a journalist of Palestine Nodya news agency, saying the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the 210 war, said the Gazi Gazine Office. It said the strike also wounded nine journalists, including Hassan Aslih, known for documenting the war for hundreds of thousands of followers of social media.
The Israeli army said that the Lord of the Aslih was her target. Without quoting the evidence, it called him a militant Hamas who participated in the attacks on October 7, 2023. On Israel and “acts under the guise of journalists.”
The murder of rescue workers on March 23 followed an air attack on a home in the Al-Hashasheen area in southern Gaza. The ambulance of the red crescent reacted and was hit by the Israeli shooting, according to the help group.
When a convoy of emergency vehicles, in the turn of two more emergency rooms, as well as an ambulance and a fire truck from the Gaza Civil Protection Service to save the first emergency room, Israeli’s troops again shot in five minutes in debt.
Dr. Younis al-Khatib, president of the Palestinian Society of the Red Crescent, said the Israeli troops had “ambushed” for a convoy. The Israeli forces then shot the fourth emergency help of a red crescent that came to help others, the red crescent officials said. The UN Safety Safety Team worker was among the killed Palestinian refugees, according to a spokeswoman for Tamara Alrifai agency.
The attack on the convoy was taken in a video for which the Red Crescent said was later discovered on the cellphone of one of the killed paramedics. New York Times Posted that video Last week.
The Red Crescent officials posted a longer, 19-minute version of the video on Monday, showing worried paramedics, a few moments before they shot them, looking for their missing associates.
Men’s bodies were establish A week later, when, after repeated demands, the United Nations and the Red Crescent ensured the permission of the Israeli army to seek them. On Monday, the Red Crescent said that everything except one body collected in a black net were discovered and buried “in a brutal and humiliating way that violates human dignity.”
Preliminary autopsy showed multiple wounds from firearms in the upper parts of male bodies, Dr. Al-Khatib said at a press conference.
The video posted on Monday, shows a convoy that races a series of dark roads to save an ambulance that has disappeared. The man who recorded it, identified as Rifaat Radwan, a paramedic of the red crescent, heard repeatedly asking that his associates were living and asking God to protect them.
While his ambulance down the road illuminated only with his headlights, Mr. Radwan tells the driver: “We call their phones and no one answers.” Namely, named three missing colleagues, he says, “Ezzzedine usually suits, including Mustafa and Munther.”
The ambulance withdraws next to another ambulance, and after some discussion of where to find the missing ambulance, two crews join a convoy that includes an ambulance and a firefighter driver of civil protection. Someone tells Mr. Radwan to stop shooting.
“These moments must be documented,” he replies. “O sir, let them be well, there may be less injuries.”
A little later, the convoy comes to the missing ambulance, a white shape by the road. The vehicles stop, and some paramedics come out.
Then a staccato shooting can be heard for about five minutes, mixed with Mr. Radwan’s desperate prayers.
At one point he addresses his mother. “Forgive me, mom, forgive me,” he says. “I swear I chose this time just to help others.”
His last words before the end of the video: “Israeli soldiers come, Israeli soldiers come.”
Yazbek error Contribute to reporting from Jerusalem.