New video has actually emerged which appears to oppose Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire engine last month, eliminating 15 paramedics and rescue employees.
The video, released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), reveals the automobiles relocating darkness with headlights and emergency situation flashing lights turned on– before coming under fire. The PRCS stated the video was gotten from the phone of a paramedic who was eliminated.
8 Red Crescent workers, 6 Civil Defence employees and a UN employee were eliminated in the shooting before dawn on 23 March by Israeli soldiers carrying out operations in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
The Israeli military at first rejected the automobiles had their headlights or emergency situation signals on, stating it opened fire on the automobiles since they were “advancing suspiciously” on neighboring soldiers.
In a brand-new declaration on Saturday, the Israeli military informed The Independent: “ The occasion that happened on March 23, 2025, is under extensive assessment.
” All claims, consisting of the documents flowing about the occurrence, will be completely and deeply taken a look at to comprehend the series of occasions and the handling of the circumstance.
” Anybody with details or documents associated to the occasion is welcomed to send it to the IDF to finish the assessment.”
The armed force stated the soldiers who opened fire had actually eliminated a variety of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who were taking a trip in automobiles marked with the Palestinian Red Crescent indications.
It took days to get to the website where the emergency situation groups vanished, according to the UN. One paramedic is still unaccounted for following the occurrence.
Israel has actually implicated Hamas of moving and concealing its fighters inside ambulances and emergency situation automobiles, in addition to in medical facilities and other civilian facilities, arguing that this validates strikes on them. Medical workers mainly reject these allegations.
Israeli strikes have actually eliminated more than 150 emergency situation responders from the Red Crescent and Civil Defence, the majority of them while on task, in addition to more than 1,000 health employees, according to the UN.
The Gaza war was activated by a Hamas attack inside Israel on 7 October 2023, throughout which around 1,200 individuals were eliminated and another 250 individuals hijacked. Israel’s vindictive offensive in Gaza has actually eliminated 50,000 Palestinians according to the enclave’s health ministry and required 90 percent of its 2.3 million homeowners from their homes.