The Israeli military refused to account for the murder of 15 Palestinian doctors last month after the video contradicted the claim that their vehicles had no emergency signals when the troops opened on their gas.
Initially, the military said they opened the fire because the vehicles were “suspicious” on the nearby troops without headlights and emergency signals. The Israeli military official, speaking at the end of the Saturday, provided anonymity in accordance with the rules, stated that the account was “wrong”.
The footage shows the teams of the Red Crescent and the civil defense, which are slowly driving when the light of their emergency cars are flashing, logos when they are pulling up to help the ambulance that came under fire earlier. The teams do not seem to act unusually or threatening when three doctors appear and go to the victim of the ambulance.
Their vehicles immediately fall under the shooting, which lasts for more than five minutes with short pauses. The owner of the phone can be heard a prayer.
“Excuse me, my mother. It's the way I chose, my mother to help people,” he cries, the voice is weak.
Eight Red Crescent employees, six civil defense workers and UN employees were killed by the shooting before dawn on March 23 by Israeli troops conducting operations in Tel al-Sultan, the Southern city of Gaza Rafa. Then the troops that bulldos over the bodies, together with their crippled vehicles, bury them in the mass grave. UN and rescue workers were able to reach the site only a week to dig bodies.
Vice -President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society Marwan Jilani said the shot phone had been found in the pocket of one of the killed employees. The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations distributed a video to the UN Security Council. The Associated Press received a video from the UN diplomat subject to anonymity as it was not announced.
One surviving paramedic, Munner Lunch, confirmed the truth of the video in the AP. Two concrete block designs that are visible in the video are also visible in the UN video released on Sunday, showing the restoration of bodies from the site, which they are in the same place.
Asked about the video, the Israeli military said on Saturday that the incident was “under a careful survey”.
The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, UNES al-Hatib, called for an independent investigation. “We do not trust any of the army investigations,” he said at a UN briefing on Friday.
One medical doctor, al-Nasasra, is still absent, says the red crescent. The lunch said he saw Israeli troops that tied troops tied al-Nasasr troops. Al-Hotib said the organization asked the military where she was holding an employee.
Al-Hotib said the killed men were “oriented to close distance” and that the criminal exposure report would soon be released.
Israel accused Hamas of moving and concealing his fighters in ambulance and emergency cars, as well as in hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, arguing that he justifies the blows on them. Medical staff greatly denies allegations.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 150 Red Crescent and Civil Defense respondents, most of them during service, as well as more than 1000 medical workers, according to the UN, Israeli military rarely investigates such cases.
Jilan said the ambulances started heading to Tel al-Sultan at about 3:50 in the morning, responding to reports of the wounded, Jilan said. He said the first ambulance in security returned at least one victim. But, he said, the following ambulances came under fire.
His hands tremble, lunch on Saturday told the AP that when his ambulance entered the area, his siren were included. “Suddenly, I tell you that we had a direct shooting,” he said so intense that the car stayed at a stop.
A 10-year-old veteran of Red Crescent, lunch, said he was sitting in the back seat and depressed on the floor. He said he did not hear anything from his two colleagues in the front seat – the only one in the vehicle. They seem to be killed instantly.
He said that Israeli troops, some with night glasses, pulled both the ambulance and the ground. They made him get rid of his underwear, beat him all over his body with a rifle, and then tied his hands behind his back, he said.
They interrogated him by asking him about his paramedic training and how many people were in the ambulance, he said. One soldier pressed his muzzle his automatic rifle into his neck. Another pressed his palms in the palm of the lunch, almost without cutting her, while the third soldier distracted them and warned lunch, “They're crazy.”
Lunch said he witnessed that they were opening fire on the following cars. He said that the soldiers forced him to his stomach and pressed a gun in his back, and against the background of firing in the dark, so he could only see two civilian security cars.
The telephone video shows the rescue escort of the Red Crescent Car and the Civil Protection, which were sent after contact was lost with terrible fast medical help. Having taken from the dashboard one vehicle, it shows several ambulances and a fire truck moving along the road through the infertile territory in the dark. The emergency lights on their roofs flash the whole way.
They come to the ambulance from the road and stop beside it, their light is still blinking. No Israeli troops are visible.
“Lord, let them be fine,” the man says in the car. Then he yells, “They are thrown to the ground!” – Apparently, citing bodies. Three people in the Orange Civil Defense can see how to get out of vehicles and go to the stopped ambulance.
The shot is shot and one of the men falls. The gunshot is erupted.
A man holding a phone seems to be pulled out of the car and on the ground, but the screen becomes black, though the audio continues. The fires lasts for almost five and a half minutes, with long and heavy curtains, and followed by silence, delineated by individual arrows and shouts.
Throughout the whole, the person with the phone and again says, “No God, but God and Muhammad are the Prophet of God” – the profession of faith that Muslims say when they are afraid to die. At the end of the six-minute, 40-second video, the voices can be heard, shouting in Hebrew. “The Jews go,” the man said, citing Israeli soldiers before the video is shut off.
An Israeli military official claimed that “there was no hard treatment” and said he did not know why vehicles were buried. He did not have information about a doctor who was missing.
Israeli military personnel say that after firing the troops determined that they killed the figure of Hamas named Mohammed Amen Shobaki and eight other militants. However, none of the 15 killed doctors has such a name, and no other bodies were found on the site.
The military did not say what happened to the body of the Shobaki or released the names of other militants. Israeli military official said Israel “is working to die Hamas.
Jonathan Wittal, the Provisional Head of the UN Humanitarian Office Ocha, dismissed the allegations that the killed physicians were Hamas militants, saying that the staff worked with the same doctors who were previously evacuated by patients from hospitals and other tasks.
“These are paramedic brigades that I personally met earlier,” he said. “They were buried in shape with gloves. They were ready to save their lives.”