Gaza medics’ killing: Video offers Israel’s narrative the lie

A ten-year veteran of the Purple Crescent, Abed mentioned he was sitting within the again seat and ducked to the ground. He mentioned he may hear nothing from his two colleagues within the entrance seat — the one others within the car. They seem to have been killed immediately.

Israeli troops, some with night time goggles, dragged Abed out of the ambulance and on to the bottom, he mentioned. They made him strip to his underwear, beat him throughout his physique with their rifle butts, then tied his fingers behind his again, he mentioned.

They interrogated him, asking him about his paramedic coaching and the way many individuals have been within the ambulance with him, he mentioned. One soldier pressed the muzzle of his computerized rifle into his neck. One other pressed his knife blade into Abed’s palm, virtually slicing it, till a 3rd soldier pulled them away and warned Abed, “They’re loopy.”

Abed mentioned he witnessed them opening hearth on the subsequent automobiles to reach. Troopers pressured him onto his abdomen and pressed a gun into his again, he mentioned, and amid the taking pictures within the darkness, so he may solely see two Civil Defence automobiles.

Video reveals medic’s terror

The telephone video reveals a rescue convoy of Purple Crescent and Civil Defence automobiles that was despatched out after contact was misplaced with the stricken ambulance. Taken from the dashboard of 1 car, it reveals a number of ambulances and a hearth truck shifting down a highway by means of a barren space within the darkness. The emergency lights on their roofs are flashing your entire means.