The scene is filmed by the passenger seat. Through the windshield you can see how several vehicles drive along an empty road. It is pitch dark, the clearer you can see – and this is a crucial detail – the blue lights of the cars: ambulance and a fire engine. They are traveling in the south of the Gaza Strip. When they arrive at their goal, they stop. The emergency helpers want to try to save the crew of another ambulance, which was shot at by Israeli troops in Rafah. The car can be seen in the light of the headlights on the left side of the road, but the emergency helpers immediately get under fire. The windshield suddenly has jumps. The man who films the video jumps out of the door and runs away from the car while salves can be heard from rifle fire. The video blurred, then the picture becomes dark. But the voice of the emergency helper can be heard – five minutes. He whimpers and prays, sometimes loud, sometimes quiet. In the meantime, shooting is kept. At the end, shortly before the video breaks off, calls can be heard in the background. Army has not granted a permit for a rescue incident for a long time, but he puts the Israeli army into great distress. The accusation is that the soldiers not only shot the Palestinians in the cars – they have literally executed them. The army clearly rejects this. But other information that she has given the case is refuted by the video recording. According to the Palestinian Red Heading Moon (PRCS), the video is almost seven minutes long from Rifaat Radwan. He is one of 15 people who were killed on March 23. Mostly these were PRC employees. At half past eight in the morning, Nebal Farsakh, the spokesman for the red crescent moon, shared that day that several vehicles in Rafah had been “besieged” by Israeli troops for hours; meant. Emergency helpers are wounded, the contact with the team has been torn down. A few hours later activate external content, it was still waiting for the Israeli army to be approved to get the team out of the danger zone. Such a “coordination” is essential for emergency helpers and employees of aid organizations and the United Nations. Otherwise there is a great risk of being classified as an enemy goal while driving through the Gaza Strip. But the past year and a half of the Gaza War have shown that even coordination does not reliably protect. Again and again there have been attacks on helpers, repeatedly wounded and dead. Fish the emergency helper for days uncertainty also happened with a team from the PRC. Helpers made their way to the Tall Al-Sultan district shortly before four in the morning. In mid -March, the Israeli army resumed its attacks in the Gaza Strip. A first ambulance came through and returned. But the second was under fire. In order to get the colleagues from the danger zone, the PRCS sent further vehicles to Rafah. In addition, there was a civil protection vehicle and one of the UN. The contact also tore off to them. This is the scene that is recorded on the now published video. Dadmals did not yet know what exactly happened at the headquarters of the red crescent moon. For days, PRCS spokesman Farsakh sent messages with always the same message: The fate of nine missing colleagues is uncertain. The army rejected all applications to send a rescue mission. Only a PRCS employee that soldiers had arrested was released. Army informed the PRCS, where the mass grave War after five days, a team from the PRC and the UN was finally admitted to Rafah. They discovered the vehicles, “completely burned out and buried in the sand”, as Farsakh said. The helpers also found the body of a member of civil protection. “However, when dark, they were forced to withdraw because a continuation of the search became impossible.” The next day, the army denied a resumption of the mission. The search for the missing person is “deliberately hindered”, the PRCS accuses the Israeli military. On the seventh day, the search was continued. 14 other bodies were found: eight employees of the PRCS, five of civil protection in Gaza and one of the UN. In a message from the red crescent moon it said: “The corpses were difficult to recover because they were buried in the sand and showed some signs of decay.” One stays lost. Speeding is said that the army has informed the PRCs about the exact place of the mass grave and recommended that they get to dig up. The case is expanding. The PRCS now speaks of a “massacre” and writes: “The fact that the occupying power is targeting paramedics of the Red Half moon, although its mission is protected and it is protected by the Red Half moon, can only be viewed as war crimes that is punishable under humanitarian international law”. The PRCS is known as an organization, which is factually expressed and generally no premature accusations. Army spokesman claimed that the vehicles were unmarked for the event of the Israeli army had not been commented on for the time being. On March 23, there was only one message that troops “circled” Tall al-Sultan. They “eliminated terrorists”. Civilians would be brought out of the combat area in an organized way. Now the army has to face severe allegations. After recovering the corpses from the mass grave, reports circulate that the humanitarian helpers were attacked and some of them were specifically killed. Several bodies were found with arms or legs tied. The army does not deny that soldiers have shot at the vehicles. When the army spokesman Nadav Shoshani was interviewed by journalists about the case on Thursday, he looked defensive. He could not comment on details. At the same time, Shoshani defended the army’s approach: the attacked vehicles were unmarked, the blue lights did not switch on, the journey was not coordinated, he said. Soldiers felt threatened, he suggested. In addition, a “first examination” showed that nine members of the Hamas and the “Palestinian Islamic Jihads” had been sitting in the PRCS vehicles. The reports on bound corpses are “obviously not true,” said Shoshani and highlights: there was “no execution”. The vehicles are marked, they have flashing lights, some inmates also carry uniforms or protective vests. After the publication of the recording, the army changes its line: The fact that the vehicles had no blue lights was an incorrect statement, it is said. The chairman of the PRC asked for an independent investigation on Friday. You don’t trust the army, said Younis al-Khatib. He also stated that some of the killed were shot from a short distance. This Monday, the PRCS plans to present further material at a press conference in Ramallah. On Saturday, one of a maximum of two survivors of the incident was also made. Munther Abed, a volunteer PRCS employee, reported various media that he was part of the first team. They were shot at that he was then arrested and beaten up by soldiers. Then he noticed how soldiers would also have shot at the vehicles that were later arriving. You would have “fired violently”. In the dark he couldn’t see exactly what happened afterwards. After it had become brighter, he was able to recognize blood splashes on and in the vehicles. A bulldozer shoveled four large holes in the sand. The vehicles were buried there. There was no trace of his colleagues.
