A video of medical staff killed in Gaza captures an ambulance with the lights on
The new York Times was awarded the footage.
Gaza. Video found in mobile phone One of the medical staff, who, along with 14 other humanitarian workers at the end of March, found in a mass grave in the Gaza Strip captures that the ambulances and the fire truck in which they were carried, were clearly marked and had lights when they were hit by Israel’s fire, writes an American daily newspaper The New York Times (NYT).
According to the United Nations, the Israelis killed the health professionals. The video apparently contradicts the Israeli version of the events that the cars were « suspicious », without labeling and unlit.
Fifteen members of the Palestinian Red Crescent, UN Office for Palestinian refugees UNRWA and Palestinian civil protection, which is subject Hamasomaccording to representatives of the UN agencies, which operate in the Gaza Strip, during the shooting in the south of the area on Sunday 23 March.
The bodies were then placed in a mass grave. UN staff did not reach the remains until Sunday, March 30.
Representatives of the Palestinian Red Crescent at Friday’s press conference of a moderated UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (MVČK) said they lost almost a seven -minute video, which was also given to NYT, the UN Security Council.
Israeli The army spokesman of the Support Šosšani said this week that Israel did not attack an ambulance randomly, but that several vehicles were identified as suspects and that they were heading for Israeli forces without the lights on or warning signals on, and they started fire.
Šosšani also said that the nine of the killed were Palestinian gunmen. At the request of the NYT for comment on the video, Israel did not respond immediately.
Nyt got the images from a high -ranking UN diplomat, who wanted to maintain anonymity due to the sensitivity of the content. The daily verified that the video was made on March 23 in Rafah in the south of the Gaza band.
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Apparently it was obtained from the front seat of one of the vehicles in the convoy of clearly marked ambulances and fire trucks. The vehicle stops when it hits another car that came out of the way. A single ambulance was previously sent to the place to help injured civilians and got under fire. Then other rescuers will go to the verge.
Rescuers, of which at least two have a uniform, then leave the fire truck and ambulances marked with the Red Crescent character and head to an ambulance that came out of the way. Then hear the intense shooting. The shots will shake and further before camera only darkness.
However, the sound is recorded and the shooting continues for another five minutes. A man in Arabic says that there are Israelis on the spot, another will begin to repeat the confession of the Muslim faith that believers recite when they face death.
« He is not God except Allah, and Muhammad is his ambassador and prophet, » the healthcare professional said. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he will die. « Mom forgive me for choosing this journey, helping people, » he said, calling « Allah Akbar », so God is great.
There are more votes in the background, including upset medics and soldiers issuing orders in Hebrew. According to NYT, it is not entirely clear what they are saying.
A spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent in an interview in Ramallah on the occupied West Bank of Jordan said that the man who shot the video was found in the mass grave with a head -shot head. According to the UN diplomat, his name has not yet been published because he is in the Gaza Strip of relatives who are afraid of Israeli retaliation.
