Chilling video shows the moment Israeli forces opened fire on a convoy of emergency vehicles
Israel says its soldiers shot and killed “terrorists” in a convoy of vehicles advancing in the dark.
Israel says its soldiers shot and killed “terrorists” in a convoy of vehicles advancing in the dark. According to an eyewitness interviewed by NBC News and video recovered from the phone of one of the victims, the ambulance lights were on and the emergency vehicles clearly marked when Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing 15 emergency workers.
The footage, provided to NBC News by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Saturday, shows a darkened road in southern Gaza bathed in the headlights of a moving vehicle. An ambulance, its emergency lights flashing and marked with the insignia of the medical aid organization, approached another vehicle stranded on the roadside.
As the convoy slows down, the windshield where Rifat Radwan, the paramedic shooting the footage, shatters. He exits the vehicle, the camera shaking as he falls to the ground and the screen goes black. Over nearly five minutes, Radwan could be heard repeating a prayer as the gunfire intensifies, before his voice fades and the camera falls still.
Radwan’s body was recovered from a shallow mass grave near Rafah, a week after he was killed on March 23, along with his phone that contained this footage, the bodies of the 14 other humanitarian workers killed in the attack, and their crushed ambulances.
People gather around the body of Palestinian paramedic Mohamed Bahloul, who was killed in the attack.AFP - Getty ImagesThe video was originally obtained and verified by The New York Times, and shown by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society at a news conference at United Nations headquarters in New York. The organization called for an independent investigation into the killing of health workers, who are protected under international humanitarian law, with the society accusing Israeli forces of committing a war crime.
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