Video contradicts IDF on aid workers’ deaths – DW – 04/05/2025

Video footage appears to contradict Israel’s claim that the vehicles carrying 15 Palestinian medics killed in southern Gaza last month did not have emergency lights flashing, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

The aid agency said the video, posted to X, was recovered from the cell phone of aid worker Rifat Radwan. It shows the medics’ moments, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as heavy gunfire erupts.

The nearly 7-minute video, apparently filmed from inside a moving vehicle, captures a red firetruck and ambulances driving through the night amid constant automatic gunfire. 

The vehicles stop beside another on the roadside, and two uniformed men get out, the Red Crescent said.

The teams do not appear to be acting unusually or in a threatening manner as three medics emerge from the vehicles and head toward a stricken ambulance, which had come under attack earlier.

Seconds later, a volley of gunfire breaks out and the screen goes black.

“This video unequivocally refutes the occupation’s claims that Israeli forces did not randomly target ambulances and that some vehicles had approached suspiciously without lights or emergency markings,” the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement. “The footage exposes the truth and dismantles this false narrative.”

Those killed included eight Red Crescent staff, six members of the Gaza civil defense agency and a worker of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

The Israeli military has said its soldiers “did not randomly attack” any ambulances, insisting they fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles.”