Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and I'm coming to you live from our studio in central London.

In the many bloody incidents that have taken place since Israel started ground operations in Gaza, about a year and a half ago, some stand out.

What really happened just before dawn on March 23rd is one of those dates.

14 emergency workers and a United Nations employee were killed by Israeli soldiers

when a convoy of ambulances and then a UN car came under fire.

Today, Israel released its own report to explain what went wrong that night,

but also to defend some of its actions.

We'll explore its verdict in a moment.

But first, here's one version of the events of March 23rd,

as told by a Palestinian survivor, Munzer Abed,

who worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Initially, a call from the liaison officer indicated that there had been a targeted attack in the

hashishin area of raffa we set out from a Palestinian red crescent ambulance station at the

British square in khan yunis the front lights on, the serene, our uniform and the logo

of the organizations was clearly visible on the outside of the vehicle. Suddenly, on the way,

we were directly fired upon. I laid down in the back of the vehicle. I didn't hear any of my colleagues' voices

at all. When they stopped the fire, I only heard my colleagues' gasps of death. Afterwards,

I heard some people around me speaking in Hebrew. I was surprised by the army special forces who opened the back door of the

vehicle and arrested me in the dark. They placed my head on the ground so that I could not see

the fate of my colleagues and what had happened to them, whether they were injured, detained,

or killed. Well, detained, or killed.

Well, as I said, Israel's appraisal of the incident is far different.

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