Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The five-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle, and shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights.

The vehicle stops beside another that appears to have been driven off the road. Two men get out to examine the stopped vehicle, and then gunfire erupts before the screen goes black.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-paramedics

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A surviving paramedic previously told the BBC that the ambulances were clearly marked and had their internal and external lights on.

The latest video, which the PRCS said had been shown to the UN Security Council, shows the marked vehicles drawing to a halt on the edge of the road, lights still flashing, and at least two emergency workers stepping out wearing reflective clothing.

The windscreen of the vehicle being filmed from is cracked and shooting can then be heard lasting for several minutes as the person filming says prayers. He is understood to be one of the dead paramedics.
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Speaking at the United Nations yesterday the President of the PRCS, Dr Younis Al-Khatib, referred to the video recording, saying: "I heard the voice of one of those team members who was killed. His last words before being shot…'forgive me mum, I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives'. It's heartbreaking".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2z103nqxo

[UpInArms]

1. From the Guardian article

The Israeli military has said its soldiers “did not randomly attack” any ambulances, insisting they fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles”.

[58Sunliner]

2. Murdering bastards.

"The footage was found on his phone after his body was recovered from a shallow grave one week after the incident. The bodies of the eight paramedics, six Gaza Civil Defence workers and one UN employee were found buried in sand, along with their wrecked vehicles. It took international organisations days to negotiate safe access to the site.

Israel claimed a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants had been killed in the incident, but it has not provided any evidence or further explained the threat to its troops."

[Lonestarblue]

3. Bibi is just as corrupt as Trump. He will wage war, including on aid and medical workers, until no one is left in Gaza.

[Grins]

4. Bibi lied??? Color me not shocked. At all. NM

[twodogsbarking]

5. War really sucks. The effects go far beyond the battlefields. It facillitates hate. War is hate.

[erodriguez]

6. War crimes.

[mwb970]

7. Israel is just as bad as Russia.

And, sadly, America.

[KG]

8. they gonna do as they please. nobody that matters cares

[Martin68]

9. Considering the number of documented attacks on well-marked first responders and medical personnel by the IDF,

I can't but conclude it is official policy to kill innocent Palestinians helping those wounded in Israeli attacks, and official policy to deny them and cover them up. Taken together with blocks to food and medicine deliveries and the bombing of schools and hospitals, it looks like genocide to me.

[moniss]

10. Typical behavior from the IDF. nt

[ForgoTheConsequence]

11. At this point those still defending Israel are like those still defending Trump.

The evidence is right before you, but you CHOOSE not to see it.