A shocking video uncovered by The New York Times from an emergency worker’s phone found in a mass grave in Rafah, southern Gaza, directly contradicts the Israeli enemy’s narrative of the recent massacre, shedding new light on the brutal assault.
Clear Evidence of Targeted Attack
The footage clearly shows ambulances and a fire truck carrying emergency and civil defense workers, with their emergency lights flashing at the time of the Israeli airstrike. The New York Times confirmed the video’s authenticity through a senior UN diplomat and verified its location and timing.
Video showed that before 15 aid workers were killed by Israeli forces, they had their emergency signal lights on, contradicting Israel’s claims. https://t.co/B81Vfgk8cu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 5, 2025
The video also captures the sound of the medic, who was filming, reciting the shahada (Islamic declaration of faith) while under fire. According to Nibal Ferskh, spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent, the medic filming the video was later found to have sustained a gunshot wound to the head.
Israeli Enemy’s False Claims Debunked
The video directly contradicts the Israeli occupation army’s claim that the vehicles were moving suspiciously without emergency lights or signals.
Last Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent recovered 14 bodies in Rafah after the Israeli attack, including eight from their medical teams, five from civil defense, and one UN staff member. The Red Crescent expressed “shock” over the ongoing attacks on their teams, despite their protected status under international law.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also condemned the targeting of medics after losing contact with them on March 23, 2025.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli military has killed 27 members of the Palestinian Red Crescent while they were performing their humanitarian duties in Gaza.
Israeli Media Response
Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper, acknowledged that the New York Times video contradicts the Israeli army’s official narrative. The Israeli occupation army previously claimed that the emergency vehicles advanced toward their forces without using emergency lights or signals, a claim directly debunked by the newly surfaced footage.
Exposing War Crimes
The Government Media Office in Gaza has emphasized that the video exposes the Israeli occupation military’s war crime and the deliberate execution of medics and civil defense workers. According to the office, the video clearly shows that the ambulances were marked with clear identifiers, confirming their role as medical and emergency vehicles.
It states that the video entirely refutes the Israeli military’s false claims and provides undeniable evidence of premeditated war crimes committed by the occupation forces. The office has called for an urgent, independent international investigation into the murder of medical and civil defense personnel.
Day 19 of Intensified Israeli Assault
As the 19th day of the Israeli occupation’s renewed genocidal campaign on Gaza unfolds, the bombardment shows no signs of letting up. Artillery and airstrikes have intensified, particularly in southern and central Gaza, claiming the lives of dozens more innocent civilians. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, hospitals have received the bodies of 60 martyrs and 162 injured individuals within the past 24 hours alone.
On Palestinian Child’s Day, children grieve their family members, lost to Israeli attacks. They carry the unbearable weight of war, but this horrifying ordeal persists amid the ongoing genocide. pic.twitter.com/SoifmCwnuj
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 5, 2025
Three individuals, including a woman and two men, were martyred in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City. Earlier, two brothers were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a group of civilians in Wadi Al-Arais Street, also in Shujaiya.
Amid escalating violence, residents trapped in the Shujaiya neighborhood fear for their lives due to the heavy and indiscriminate bombardment, with many tents torn apart by shelling and drones opening fire without warning. Numerous families, mostly women, children, and the elderly, are urgently pleading for assistance.
Between the arms of his little brother, a Gazan kid bursts into tears in mourning of his martyr mother, killed in Israeli airstikes on civilians yesterday.
According to Gaza Government Media Office, over 39,384 child in Gaza have lost one or both parents, while other 17,000… pic.twitter.com/jvNSFOcE2i
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 5, 2025
In other areas, shelling from Israeli forces wounded three individuals, one critically, in the Abu Tima area of Al-Fukhari, east of Khan Younis. Additionally, the Israeli occupation targeted a house in the Miraj area, northeast of Rafah, killing one and injuring two.
Elsewhere, a woman was martyred in an Israeli strike on Al-Sikka Street in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, and three martyrs fell in Khan Younis refugee camp due to drone strikes.
In another tragic incident, a young man was killed, and his wife and child were wounded after Israeli forces targeted their apartment in central Khan Younis early Saturday morning.
Source: Al-Manar Website
