Palestinian Red Crescent details medic's account of 15 colleagues' slaughter

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4. Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings

The report below was two weeks after the incident when more information and video surfaced.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-changes-initial-account-gaza-aid-worker-killings-2025-04-06/

The military initially said soldiers had opened fire on vehicles that approached their position "suspiciously" in the dark without lights or markings. It said they killed nine militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were travelling in Palestinian Red Crescent vehicles.

But video recovered from the mobile phone of one of the dead men and published by the Palestinian Red Crescent showed emergency workers in their uniforms and clearly marked ambulances and fire trucks, with their lights on, being fired on by soldiers.

He said the initial report received from the field did not describe lights, but said investigators were looking at "operational information" and were trying to understand if this was due to an error by the person making the initial report.

"What we understand currently is the person who gives the initial account is mistaken. We're trying to understand why."