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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