Video shows Israel firing on Palestinian medical workers
Newshour
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🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mobile phone footage released by the New York Times appears to contradict the Israeli account of how Palestinian medics met their deaths in Gaza. The video shows the workers’ medical vehicles with their headlights on and emergency lights flashing. The Israeli military had said the convoy had been advancing suspiciously, without lights on. Also on the programme: President Trump urges Americans to "hang tough", after the biggest falls on US stock markets in years; and the British woman in her 70s who found out she had been swapped at birth. (Picture: Palestinians mourn the medics killed in an Israeli attack on their convoy Credit: REUTERS/Hatem KhaledY/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service, and we're coming to you live from London. My name's Paul Henley. |
| 0:11.6 | A video has emerged which appears to contradict Israel's account of an attack in Gaza, which left 15 medical workers dead. |
| 0:20.5 | The New York Times has published mobile phone footage, said to be from the phone of one |
| 0:25.0 | of the Palestinian medics who died. |
| 0:26.8 | It seems to show the workers' medical vehicles with headlights on and emergency lights flashing |
| 0:32.7 | just before fatal shots were fired. |
| 0:38.5 | I shod Allahah, Allah, Allah, and Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, what you hear is, one of the paramedics frantically praying, expecting to die, saying God is great. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, the Israeli military said his convoy had been advancing suspiciously with no lights on when their soldiers opened fire. |
| 1:10.8 | The video was given to Farnas Fasihi of the New York Times, |
| 1:14.5 | who went on to co-write the article. |
| 1:16.5 | She is United Nations Bureau Chief for the newspaper, |
| 1:19.5 | and she joins us live. |
| 1:21.0 | Farnas, welcome. |
| 1:22.4 | Who exactly took this video, and how did you get hold of it? |
| 1:26.1 | Thank you for having me, Paul. |
| 1:28.8 | The video was recovered from the body of one of the paramedics who we see in the video filming and we hear |
| 1:36.4 | his voice. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that they recovered it when they |
| 1:41.7 | discovered the bodies of the 15 aid worker in a mass grave. |
| 1:46.8 | They circulated the video with Security Council members, and I obtained it from senior UN diplomats. |
| 1:56.3 | And the phone presumably was buried, presumably accidentally, in a shallow grave with the victim's |
| 2:02.8 | body, was it? |
| 2:04.3 | Right. |
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