Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The almost seven-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of Rifat Radwan, one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle. It shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights.
The vehicle stops beside another that has driven off the road. Two men get out to examine the stopped vehicle, and then gunfire erupts before the screen goes black.
The Onion does it again…
…the latest lie from Israel over their butchering of 15 Palestinian Ambulance and Emergency first responders is starting to unravel, as it always does.
Here’s the cycle.
We get a disgusting spasm of violence from Israel that is clearly a war crime.
Israel provides some bullshit excuse for why they committed the war crime.
Evidence immediately comes out contradicting Israel’s lie.
Israel accuses everyone of anti-semitism for highlighting the evidence of their lie.
It’s the exact same situation here.
Israel claimed the ambulances and emergency vehicles were edging towards their checkpoint with their lights off.
That was a lie.
The ambulances and emergency staff were racing to Israel’s latests attack with their sirens and lights on.
Israel butchered them anyway.
It is a war crime to attack emergency staff.
Remember.
The UN has accused Israel of shooting in the Palestinian Emergency vehicles, taking all 15 staff hostage, tying their hands behind their backs and then executing them.
Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one UN employee, were killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March, in which the UN says Israeli forces shot the men “one by one” and then buried them in a mass grave.
According to Israel, pointing out they are lying and criticising their execution of 15 emergency staff is antisemitism.
Meanwhile in America, land of free speech, Trump’s secret police are arresting students on the street for merely criticising Israel’s genocide…
A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveillance video shows.
The 30-year-old shrieked in fear when an officer in a hooded sweatshirt and hat grabbed her by the wrists as another pulled out a concealed badge on a lanyard and confiscated her cell phone.
Soon afterward, the swarm of officers who had surrounded her on the sidewalk pulled cloth coverings over their mouths and noses, some of them wearing sunglasses.
“We’re the police,” the officers said.
“Yeah, you don’t look like it. Why are you hiding your faces?” a person not seen in the video can be heard responding.
The masked officers handcuffed Ozturk and held onto each of her arms, the video shows.
One minute after the encounter began, Ozturk was led into an SUV and driven away.
The international student – who is originally from Turkey and on a valid F-1 student visa – was then driven “across multiple states,” including multiple government offices in New England, Ozturk’s legal team said.
The next morning, she was flown more than 1,500 miles away from her home to a staging facility in Alexandria, Louisiana – despite a court order about six hours after her arrest that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.
While in transit to Louisiana, Ozturk suffered from an asthma attack, according to an amended habeas corpus petition filed Friday. Throughout that period of time, Ozturk was not charged or given the opportunity to speak with a lawyer, according to the spokesperson.
Then, she eventually ended up at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.
Ozturk is one of several international university students facing deportation following a Trump administration order to crack down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses.
The arrests of scholars and students at the hands of masked law enforcement officers – who have taken them into custody by ambushing them on city streets and near their homes – have sent a chill across the international student community.
After Ozturk’s arrest, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas” in a Wednesday statement, without specifying what those alleged activities were. Her lawyers say she is unfairly being punished for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights.
While a judge has since halted her deportation, Ozturk’s lawyers continue to fight for her release.
She’s not a terrorist, she was merely critical of Israeli and American Foreign Policy, and for that, for expressing an opinion contrary to MAGA fascists and Fra Right foaming Fanatics, she deserves all she gets.
Masked secret Police arresting people on the streets for thoughts crimes.
Let that sink in.
I have argued and will continue to argue, that Trump is a fascist and that he will turn America into a Police State.
He has started.
Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil are moderate voices arguing against the genocide and ethnic cleansing war crimes of Israel.
Merely arguing against the terrible disproportionate horror that Israel has unleashed marks you as an enemy of the state.
Both of them are smeared as antisemites and both of them are denigrated so that their valid criticism of Israel’s deplorable war crimes
This is Amerika now.
This is why the Rights championing of Free Speech is such hypocrisy.
The Right have weaponised Free Speech (thanks to our middle class woke feminist non-binary activists) to shut down debate, not facilitate it. The Right are Free Speech hypocrites and we are seeing that manifest in America right now.
Let’s not forget that the World Court ruled Israel is probably committing technical genocide and their Prime Minister is currently wanted on war crimes FFS!
Silencing critics by arresting them with masked secret Police is just the start, and it’s a start that other Country’s are following…
Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk
Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand.
More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm on Thursday, according to a statement by the Quakers.
“No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” said Paul Parker, the recording clerk for Quakers in Britain.
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.
“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”
In a video posted on Youth Demand’s Facebook page, a woman who claimed to have attended the meeting described it as a “publicly advertised welcome talk” about the group. She said police seized attenders’ phones and laptops.
…the fucking Quakers?
That’s who the enemy is now if they are protesting Gaza?
That’s how insane the level of over policing free speech against Israel’s genocide has reached?
Quakers and masked secret Police arresting you on the street?
It’s happening in Germany as well…
Germany moves to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activism
The four slated for deportation have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza.
…the annexation of Gaza is upon us and obscenity of Trump Gaza is here…
Israel announces plan to seize ‘large areas’ in Gaza – as it happened
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Israel’s defence minister has said the country intends to “seize large areas” of the Gaza Strip amid a major expansion of aerial and ground operations in the besieged Palestinian territory
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Israel Katz said in a statement on Wednesday that “troops will move to clear areas of terrorists and infrastructure, and seize extensive territory that will be added to the state of Israel’s security areas”
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Katz also said he was calling on Palestinian civilians to flee areas where fighting had returned after the collapse of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last month and to “act now to overthrow Hamas and return all the hostages”
…Israel is only attempting this naked annexation because Trump is enabling it!
Let’s not forget that Trump helped start this most recent spasm of violence!
In January of 2023, 9 months before Hamas launched their attack, I wrote that all the ingredients of another Palestinian uprising had been met thanks to Trump’s insane pandering to the evangelical vote to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Trump made Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 2017 because his lunatic evangelical voter block believe one of the pre-conditions of the rapture is Israel going back to its Old Testament Boundaries.
This naked pandering by Trump to the happy happy joy joy evangelical Apocalypse club set off an explosion of Zionist land grabs focused in the West Bank while continuing to brutally occupy Gaza with a never ending blockade.
Those land grabs wound their way through Israel’s judicial system and went against the Zionists who in turn politicised and formed important fringe groups who cut deals with the deeply corrupt Netanyahu which culminated in a show down between the far right Zionists who wanted to over ride judicial orders against their illegal settlements and Israeli civil society who were disgusted by the abuse of power, state over reach and the strangling off of an Independent Judiciary.
The perverse outcome of Trump’s Abraham Accords that sought to normalise relations between Israel and the Sunni Petrostates, is that it cut the Palestinians out altogether meaning their suffering under the oppressive (and illegal) Israeli Occupation would never find hope and their aspirations silenced.
All these ingredients came together on October 7th as Hamas launched a highly organised attack on Israel murdering 695 civilians, 71 foreigners (mostly Thai), 373 security/soldiers and taking 250 hostages. That attack has generated a disproportionate genocidal response from Israel that has killed over 50 000 + the 11 000 under rubble + the 182 000 Palestinians that have died from secondary causes because of the immense violence.
We are knocking on quarter of a million dead, hundreds of thousands wounded, over 60% of Gaza flattened and the startling reality the IDF have in one year dropped more bombs on Gaza than London, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined…
…watching Israeli apologists scream that their disproportionate ethnic cleansing war crime against the Palestinians isn’t a Genocide and that you are anti-semitic for suggesting so in the shadow of the mountain of dead Palestinians they have killed, manages to encapsulate the insanity, malice and blind hate of this atrocity.
Let’s remember the obscenity of ‘Trump Gaza’:
“Donald Trump will set you free,
bringing the life for all to see,
no more tunnels,
no more fear,
Trump Gaza is finally here.”
Trump Gaza is finally here.
We, the West, those enabling Israel’s genocide, WE are the fucking Nazis now.
We. Are. The. Nazis. Now.
The next generation of global children are watching kids like them being bombed with American bombs and killed by Israeli soldiers.
There will be a terrible backlash to this abomination that will mutilate us forever.
“Donald Trump will set you free,
bringing the life for all to see,
no more tunnels,
no more fear,
Trump Gaza is finally here.”
We are the fucking Nazis now and a terrible backlash to the genocide we have enabled will come.
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Biden funnelled an endless supply of weapons to Israel, this all started under him even tho it was clear from the start, after the initial retaliation against the Hamas attack, they were engaging in genocide leading to a landgrab.
started in 1967 and has just been a land grab by the colonists ever since a repeat of what happened here in the 1870s.Give them an acre and they will take the whole country .
The world has been lied to ever since .
“Israel provides some bullshit excuse for why they committed the war crime.” Martyn Bradbury
The Trump Whitehouse are more open and direct, they don’t bother with lies. they openly admit to pressuring Hamas by killing civilians
“All hell to be paid” means killing civilians White House confirms.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, said the civilian Palestinian First Responders were killed because Hamas didn’t obey Trump’s threat to release the hostages, or all hell would be paid.
Hamas, were ‘witnessing what all hell to be paid feels like, said Leavitt
White House Pressed on Claims of Israeli Forces Killing Gaza First Responders
DawnNews English
30K views 4 days ago
Karoline Leavitt @0:39 minutes
“……the President made it very clear to Hamas, ‘You get the hostages out, all of them, or there will be hell to pay’.
And Hamas is certainly witnessing what it feels like for all hell to be paid.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ATvoRnOlfc&t=1s
i.e. Leavitt confessed to a war crime. She should be indicted.
“She should be indicted.”
In USA?
Fat chance.
USA is where charges as serious as treasonous insurrection and stealing state secrets simply evaporate in order that nobody will suffer from a mean tweet.
In the World Court?
Fat chance.
USA ignores its existence.
Of course there’s no chance of any actual prosecution. But aiding and abetting a war crime is complicity in a war crime, and the ICC could still indict and issue an arrest warrant. Countries outside the USA and Israel could then apply sanctions to all individuals with outstanding arrest warrants, if they were brave enough. It’s only moral opprobrium rather than the gaol time she deserves, but it keeps memory alive, which matters.
The magnitude of Israel’s genocidal extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, being live streamed, in real time, in full view of the whole world, means that Israel’s international legal impunity, to do whatever it likes to the indigenous Palestinian population must be brought to an end.
Owen Jones is joined by Dr. Alonso Gurmendi who explains why the ICC arrest warrants could be a game changer, and not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the entire world.
Owen Jones
185,394 views Nov 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RApBgp4JjSc
“…..Dr. Alonso Gurmendi (London School of Economics) who explains why the arrest warrants could be a game changer not just for Israel and Palestine, but reflect dramatic changes to the entire global order.”
No more impunity for Israel, means New Zealand will also need to get our house in order, in readiness to respond to further arrest warrants issued by the ICC.
[For clarity and to aid comprehension, I have lightly edited the following AI generated transcript of Owen Jones interview with Dr. Alonso Gurmendi.]
starting @10:06 minutes
… our security and police and border protection services will be handed an ICC watch list of suspected war criminals to be apprehended if they try to enter this country. [the UK]
New Zealand will also need to be prepared to apprehend any suspected war criminals named on an ICC watch list, if they try to enter this country.
Here is my suggested question for our opposition MPs, Labour, Greens, TPM, to put to our government during Question Time;
Question Time in the House
Question for Answer:
Q: Can the Minister confirm, that in the unlikely event that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israel Minister of Defence Yoav Galant enter this country, that they will be arrested by the proper authorities and handed over to the ICC to stand trial in the Hague as required by our international obligations and legal commitments?
Yes or No?
A: Yes. [likely answer]
Supplementary Question for Answer:
Q: Can the Minister confirm, that any and every visitor to this country on an ICC watch list, will be detained by the New Zealand authorities at the border and handed over to the ICC to stand trial in the Hague?
Yes or No?
A: (…….) ? [Who knows what Luxon or Peters’ answer will be]
The dead people in this incident worked for the Red Crescent Humanitarian organisation.
How does killing them harm Hamas?
(Now wait for some wanker to say I am anti-semitic and defending Hamas).
Spot on point.
War crimes are war crimes whether committed by Hamas or IDF . .
The Gazans are the children of Israel. The Israelis and Palestinians are one people who will always be together. Right now they are the Cane and Able of modern geo-politics – whoever survives this struggle will be forever cursed in God’s eyes because of the brutal inhumanity of ‘a brother killing his brothers children’, of ‘brother killing sister and mother’ of ‘brother killing brother’. These are deep spiritual transgressions which undermine the faith and meaning of a society and it’s people. Israel must heal itself – it’s people must learn to see through their fear and profound historic trauma. And they must embrace the role of being the stronger and wiser older brother and be resolute and consistent in reaching for lasting peace with themselves and all the children of Israel.
The future for Israelis and Palestinians is a single secular state that upholds equal protection for all of it’s citizens – dare I say it like the US which is the safest country for Jewish and Palestinian people in the world.
The IDF release the findings of their investigation into the IDF killings of 14 Palestinian First Responders.
From the Times of Israel:
Army says 6 medics identified posthumously as Hamas men
By Emanuel Fabian 5 April 2025, 11:46 pm
….the military, which accuses Hamas of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, had initially said the vehicles were without headlights or emergency lights,
…..Following the emergence of the video Saturday, the military said that Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor would be re-investigating the incident.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shares-initial-details-from-gaza-ambulance-probe-says-troops-told-un-of-burial-site/
By their own admission, the IDF confess to shooting up the ambulances, and then checking to see if any of those they killed, were Hamas members.
The IDF investigation claimed the responders bodies were buried several metres deep to keep them from wild dogs. This show of concern for the deceased doesn’t gel with the crushed and mangled state of the bodies caused by the bulldozer used to bury them. Wild dogs doesn’t account for the state of the ambulances also being found crushed and buried by the IDF D9 bulldozer. The IDF investigation claimed the ambulances were buried to keep the roads clear.
…..The army said that burying bodies in this way was an approved and regular practice during fighting in Gaza, to prevent wild dogs and other animals from eating the corpses. Times of Israel
…..The UN has said that the mangled ambulances were found buried alongside the bodies. According to the IDF probe, an armored D9 bulldozer pushed the ambulances off the road to open it up, crushing the vehicles in the process. Times of Israel
‘Meh….old news
Who cares, when Gaza is cleared out, peace will ensue.
When the Iran mad mullahs are toppled by its people (or bombed into submission) the terrorism it’s sponsoring will end.’
KNOCK KNOCK Who is there?
I’m Right
I’m right who?
I’m right around the bend. I believe in fighting for peace and fucking for chastity. I believe killing people will make the survivors love the killers. I believe that when Bob the First and I use freedom of speech to masturbate on paper everyone can see what clever little boys we are.
To paraphrase JFK The fruits of [Israel’s] victory will be like ashes in our mouths
The Arab Spring will look like a mere dress rehearsal, for what’s coming.
Ethnically cleansing the survivors of the genocide in Gaza forcing them into Egypt and Jordan, will destabilise the whole region.
Pro-US, pro-Israel regimes across the Middle East, and wider Levant, will be shaken and toppled and reshaped, to become unrecognisable, compared to what they are today.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/tens-of-thousands-attend-anti-israel-pro-palestinian-protest-in-istanbul/
In Turkey the millions of people protesting against the Erdogan regime are uniting with the pro-Palestine movement.
Turkey is getting closer to Syria.
Israel is terrified of the revolutionary regime in Syria, a fear so great that Israel has launched pre-emptive unprovoked attacks, daring the Syrian government weakened by war and revolution to strike back, as an excuse to continue their one sided genocidal war into a defenceless Syria, confident that Turkey and the pro-US Arab regimes will do nothing to stop them.
But that situation will change.
The Struggle Continues: A Reflection from Turkey Against Rising Authoritarianism
Gürkan Özturan / Apr 5, 2025
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-struggle-continues-a-reflection-from-turkey-against-rising-authoritarianism/
A call to global solidarity
As the Turkish government’s repression intensifies, it is clear that the protests will continue. The government may resort to further violence and silencing tactics, but the resolve of the people will only grow stronger. This struggle is not just about a single political leader or a set of legal decisions — it is about the future of Turkey itself.
……As authoritarian leaders gain ground in many parts of the world, it is more important than ever to stand in solidarity with the Turkish people. The Gezi Park protests taught Turkey that the struggle for freedom is never over, and today’s protests echo that same spirit of defiance. During the Gezi Park protests, the most chanted slogan was, “This is yet the beginning, struggle carries on!” Those words remain as relevant today as they were then. The struggle in Turkey is not just a national issue — it is a global one. Across the world, authoritarianism is on the rise, threatening the freedoms and rights we hold dear. Now, more than ever, we must unite in solidarity to push back against this tide and build a future rooted in democracy and justice.
Author Gürkan Özturan is the Media Freedom Monitoring Officer for Media Freedom Rapid Response at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. He holds two M.A. degrees, one in European Politics from Le Centre International de Formation Européenne and another in European Union Studies from Istanbul
“The next generation of global children are watching kids like them being bombed with American bombs and killed by Israeli soldiers.” Martyn Bradbury
Don’t forget us Martyn. We currently have an Orion and the Te Kaha in the Arabian Gulf, right now playing a support role to the US Navy.
We too have the blood of these kids on our hands. Every one of us.
From Times of Israel:
US shipment of 2,000-lb bombs held up by Biden administration arrives in Israel
1,800 of the heavy bombs unloaded at Ashdod Port, taken by trucks to Israeli airbases, weeks after Trump lifted hold on delivery
By Emanuel Fabian 16 February 2025, 9:51 am
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-shipment-of-heavy-bombs-held-up-by-biden-administration-arrives-in-israel/
….A ship carrying the MK-84 2,000-lb munitions docked at Ashdod Port and was unloaded onto dozens of trucks and taken to Israeli airbases, the ministry said.
Defense Minister Israel Katz hailed the arrival of the bombs, saying in a statement: “The munitions shipment that arrived in Israel tonight, released by the Trump administration, represents a significant asset for the Air Force and the IDF and serves as further evidence of the strong alliance between Israel and the United States.” [and New Zealand]
What is most sinister about our deployment of a New Zealand Frigate and an Orion aircraft to the Arabian Gulf, is that when you look at the timeline, it was done on the 12th of February right in the middle of the ceasefire long before the ceasefire was ended, at a time when the Yemenis were obeying the ceasefire, and had lifted their blockade of all shipping through the Red Sea, including to Israel. In hindsight it is obvious that the NZDF were in on Israel’s plan to break the ceasefire.
The ceasefire took effect on the 19th of January 2025, and was ended by Israel on the 18th of March 2025, the Te Kaha and the Orion were deployed on the 12th of February.
On 18 March 2025, Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Gaza, breaking the ceasefire with Hamas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire#
This dirty act of treachery was carried out with the full pre-knowledge of the NZDF
All the bullshit about deploying to the Gulf to protect our trading routes is just that bullshit. We are there to assist the Israeli war effort, prevent food and medical aid being smuggled into Gaza and free up US forces to attack the Houthis.
From the Times of Israel:
Yemen’s Houthis threaten to resume attacks on Israel if no aid to Gaza in four days
TOI staff
7 March 2025
……The Houthis, who control much of the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, fired scores of drones and missiles at Israeli-linked and other shipping in the Red Sea during the Gaza war, until calling a halt when a ceasefire started in January.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/yemens-houthis-threaten-to-resume-attacks-on-israel-if-no-aid-to-gaza-in-four-days/
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