Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesbby.

Military officials in Israel have admitted their soldiers made mistakes, as they put it,

when they opened fire on a convoy of unarmed Palestinian Red Crescent emergency workers

on the 23rd of March near Rafa in the south

of the Gaza Strip killing 15 people. The new statement directly contradicts earlier comments

about the attack. Previously, the Israeli Defence Force had claimed the vehicles approached

suspiciously in darkness without headlights or flashing lights.

Now this new admission of mistakes follows the emergence of a video captured by one of the emergency workers himself,

in which flashing emergency lights on the ambulances and fire truck can clearly be seen.

The workers can also be seen in uniform.

While paramedic Rafat Radat Radwan, managed to record the

attack on his mobile phone, we can hear part of that recording now. Over the gunfire, you can hear

Raphat desperately saying his last prayers before he was also shot and killed. And it is an upsetting

listen. That is the voice of Paramedic Rathat Rada, that is the voice of paramedic Raphat Radwan there

and he died shortly after that moment.

That video was only discovered when his body was found in a shallow grave along with his

colleagues, officials say the Israeli troops wanted to protect the bodies from discovered when his body was found in a shallow grave along with his colleagues.

Officials say the Israeli troops wanted to protect the bodies from wild animals.

They say the vehicles were also buried to clear the road.

More on that in a moment.

But the video was given to Farnas Fasihi of the New York Times.

She's United Nations Bureau Chief for the newspaper,

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