Video shows last moments for Gaza aid workers killed by Israel: Red Crescent - War on Gaza

Al-Ahram Weekly

05-04-2025

A video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside 14 other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestine Red Crescent, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as Israeli forces unleash heavy gunfire.
The aid worker was among 15 humanitarian personnel who were killed on March 23 execution-style in an attack by Israeli upation four days after Tel Aviv resumed its genocidal war on the strip on 18 March, according to the United Nations and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
The Israeli milarmyitary has claimed its soldiers "did not randomly attack" any ambulances, insisting they fired on "terrorists" approaching them in "suspicious vehicles" without headlights or emergency signals.
The video completely contradicts the Israeli army claims, showing ambulances travelling with their headlights and emergency lights clearly flashing.
The video, filmed from inside a moving vehicle, captures a red firetruck and ambulances driving through the night. The ambulances are clearly marked, and the medics are wearing reflective gear.
The vehicles stop beside another on the roadside, and two uniformed men exit. Moments later, intense gunfire by Israeli forces erupts.
In the video, the voices of two medics are heard -- one saying, "the vehicle, the vehicle," and another responding: "It seems to be an accident."
Seconds later, a volley of Israeli gunfire targeting the vehicles breaks out, and the screen goes black.
⚡️BREAKING: Video footage from the cellphone of a Palestinian paramedic, later found in a mass grave with 14 other aid workers killed by Israel in Gaza, shows their final moments and disproves Israel's account.
New footage shows aid workers in Gaza killed under heavy gunfire… pic.twitter.com/U9SnCPzaSY — Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) April 5, 2025
PRCS vice-president Marwan Jilani told a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York that the video was recovered from the body of one of the deceased aid workers.
Those killed included eight PRCS staff, six members of the Gaza civil defence agency and one employee of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA.
Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal confirmed that PRCS and Civil Defense workers were executed at point-blank range by Israeli forces during a coordinated rescue mission.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Civil Defense, and Red Crescent crews later exhumed a mass grave where the bodies were found, many with zip-tied hands and signs of field execution. "One had his clothes removed, another was beheaded," Basal reported.
Fear and prayers
The OCHA has said Israeli forces targeted the first team at dawn on that day. In the hours that followed, additional rescue and aid teams searching for their colleagues were also struck in a series of successive attacks.
According to the PRCS, the convoy had been dispatched in response to emergency calls from civilians trapped under Israeli bombardment in Rafah.
In the video, a medic recording the scene can be heard reciting the declaration of faith, the shahada, which Muslims traditionally say in the face of death.
"There is no God but God, Mohammed is his messenger," he says several times, his voice trembling with fear as intense gunfire continues in the background.
He is also heard saying: "Forgive us guys, forgive me mother because I chose this way, the way of helping people".
He then says, "accept my martyrdom, God, and forgive me." Just before the footage ends, he is heard saying, "The Jews are coming, the Jews are coming," referring to Israeli soldiers. Palestinians and Arabs alike often say Jews when they are, in fact, referring to Israelis.
The killing of the aid workers has sparked international condemnation.
Standing at the site of the massacre during a 30 March search mission, Jonathan Whittall, head of the OCHA in the Palestinian territories, described how "the ambulances were hit one by one as they advanced, as they entered into Rafah."
The PRCS has condemned the attack as a war crime under international humanitarian law, noting that the bodies 'were recovered with difficulty as they were buried in the sand, with some showing signs of decomposition.
Since 7 October 2023, Osrael has killed at least 408 aid workers, including at least 280 UNRWA staff and 34 PRCS staff, according to an Amnesty International report investigating Israeli killings of paramedics and rescue workers in the Palestinian territory.
Since resuming its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, the Israeli army has killed over 1000 Palestinians, including at least 322 children, according to an update from the Palestinian Health Ministry on Tuesday. The ministry added that nearly 2,400 others were injured during the same period.
The total number of Palestinians killed by Israelsince the war began on 7 October 2023 has now reached 50,423, and the injured have reached 114,638, with the majority being women and children.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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