What we know about the killings of 15 Palestinian first responders by Israeli forces

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What we know about the killings of 15 Palestinian first responders by Israeli forces  Video evidence shared by the Palestinian Red Crescent contradicts Israel's earlier claim the emergency vehicles were proceeding 'suspiciously' and without emergency lights.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/07/what-we-know-about-the-killings-of-15-palestinian-first-responders-by-israeli-forces  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00What do we know about the killings of 15 Palestinian medics?

00:08The Palestinian Red Crescent says this mobile phone footage shows the moment

00:12their first responders were gunned down by Israeli forces in late March.

00:17The medics can be seen in their high-vis jackets.

00:20Their ambulances are clearly marked.

00:23Israeli forces originally said they had opened fire at

00:26suspicious vehicles that drove without emergency lights.

00:29They have since said that version of events was mistaken.

00:33The attack happened on March 23rd as medics were dispatched

00:37to attend to the injured in Rafah's al-Hashash neighbourhood.

00:40One Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was sent there and came under fire.

00:44Three further ambulances were then sent to assist but contact was lost.

00:48A total of 16 responders from the Red Crescent, the Civil Defence and the UN went missing.

00:53Four days later, the UN was granted access to a site it described as a mass grave.

00:59Where emergency vehicles had been crushed and buried in the sand.

01:02One body was retrieved.

01:04On March 29th, six days after the attack, Israeli forces first acknowledged

01:09they had fired at emergency vehicles they deemed suspicious.

01:13On March 30th, the UN returned to the site and retrieved a further 14 bodies.

01:18One Red Crescent worker remains missing.

01:21The UN says the workers were killed in uniform as they were saving lives.

01:25But an IDF source told us they believed as many as six of the 15 workers were Hamas operatives.

01:31They have yet not presented any evidence to back that claim.

01:35We put all of this to a human rights lawyer.

01:38Even if there was say one suspected Hamas individual in a group of aid workers

01:46otherwise untainted by that sort of description

01:51then any attack, like every attack, where civilians may be injured or killed has to be proportionate.

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