Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza as video shows final moments of Palestine emergency workers

The video, first obtained by New York Times, was recorded on a phone by one of the 15 deceased ambulance and relief team members killed by the Israeli military, PRCS said. Israel had claimed that it fired on the vehicle as the convoy moved “suspiciously” in darkness without the headlights.

A medic murdered and buried in Gaza spoke from the grave—thanks to video found on his phone.

He was one of 15 aid workers whose corpses were found in a mass grave in Rafah, Gaza, late last month—along with a buried ambulance.

Israeli forces responded to the shocking discovery… pic.twitter.com/Gh3i1ZRvdU

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Israel also claimed that the movement of the vehicles had not been coordinated or agreed to prior with the army. Contrasting to the Israeli claims, the mobile footage captured by one of the deceased workers, showed the vehicles did have lights on as they answered a call to help people who were injured.

The bodies of the deceased were found after a week in a mass grave as they were reported to be missing. At least 14 bodies were recovered from the southern Rafah area, wherein eight of them were identified as members of the PRCS, five bodies belonged to the civil defense and one was a UN agency employee.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the military earlier fired on a car which had three Hamas members. However, the IDF admitted that their earlier claims of vehicles moving without headlights were inaccurate, BBC reported.