{"id":306338,"date":"2025-04-06T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306338"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:12:40","slug":"phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-medics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306338","title":{"rendered":"Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bethan McKernan \u2013 The Guardian April 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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<\/a> Defense Forces (IDF).<\/p>\n

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

The vehicle stops beside another that has driven off the road. Two men get out to examine the stopped vehicle, and then gunfire erupts before the screen goes black.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military has said its soldiers \u201cdid not randomly attack\u201d any ambulances, insisting they fired on \u201cterrorists\u201d approaching them in \u201csuspicious vehicles\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lt Col Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesperson, said troops opened fire on vehicles that had no prior clearance to enter the area, and were driving with their lights off.<\/p>\n

The IDF said on Saturday that the incident was still under investigation and that \u201call claims, including the documentation circulated about the incident, will be thoroughly and deeply examined to understand the sequence of events and the handling of the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Late on Saturday, Reuters cited an anonymous Israeli military official as telling journalists that the initial account of the vehicles not having emergency lights on was mistaken.<\/p>\n

Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one UN employee, were killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March, in which the UN says Israeli forces shot the men \u201cone by one\u201d and then buried them in a mass grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the PRCS and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah\u2019s Tel al-Sultan district.<\/p>\n

A Red Crescent official in Gaza<\/a> said there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The shootings happened one day into the renewed Israeli offensive in the area close to the Egyptian border after the breakdown of a two-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Another Red Crescent worker on the mission is still reported missing.<\/p>\n

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Mobile phone footage exposes Zionist lies. The IDF says its soldiers fired on \u2018terrorists\u2019 in \u2018suspicious vehicles\u2019 but mobile phone footage shows clearly marked ambulances with flashing lights had stopped before coming under sustained IDF fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":306341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,19,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Behind_The_News","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306354,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306338\/revisions\/306354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}