Palestine’s Red Crescent Has Shared Footage Revealing Israel Deliberately Killed The 15 Medics In Gaza
Refaat Radwan, one of the 15 medics killed, kept filming until his last breath, saying, “Forgive me, mom, this is the path I chose: To help people.”
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) released a seven-minute video showing Israeli forces deliberately killing the 15 medics and emergency responders in Gaza who were found buried in a mass grave.
Israeli forces had claimed they attacked vehicles “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
However, a video obtained from the phone of medic Refaat Radwan, who was killed at the scene, showed the vehicles were visibly marked as ambulances with clear emergency headlights and the medics were wearing reflective gear.
The ambulances were on their way to help injured people in Rafah on March 23, when they stopped to check on people in a bombed car on the road.
As soon as they got out of the ambulances, Israeli forces opened fire at them.
Radwan kept filming until his last breath, saying, “Forgive me, mom, this is the path I chose: To help people.”
The PRCS then lost all contact with ambulance teams for a week, as Israel had launched a ground invasion of Rafah, besieging it and refusing all PRCS’ calls to search for its missing crew.
On March 30, the United Nations was finally allowed access to the site, and crews discovered 15 bodies in a mass grave, including eight PRCS paramedics, six Civil Defense members, and one UN employee.
A PRCS paramedic remains missing and is believed to have been detained.
Following the release of the video, Israeli forces said it is investigating the incident, according to the BBC.
The UN condemned the attack and said the PRCS said the killing of its staff is a “war crime.”
Under International Humanitarian Law, attacks on aid workers constitute war crimes, particularly if they are part of a systematic pattern.
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