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STORY: UN / GAZA RED CRESCENT KILLINGS
TRT: 02:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
04 APRIL 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Younis Al-Khatib, President, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS):
“We urged the Council to support the call for an independent and thorough investigation of this atrocious crime. And hold those responsible to account.”
4. Wide shot, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Younis Al-Khatib, President, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS):
“I heard the voice of one of those team members who was killed. And his phone was found with this body. And he recorded the whole event. His last words, before being shot. Forgive me, mom. I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives. And then he was killed.”
6. Wide shot, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Younis Al-Khatib, President, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS):
“We were praying that they will be alive. They kept us for eight days in the dark. Now, the only information we know that Assad is missing. But there's somebody who knows whether Assad has been killed somewhere else, or Assad is detained in Israeli jails.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Jilani, Vice President, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS):
“I think the scale of this crime should force, that it should oblige the international community to do more and not to accept that this would be another incident that goes in the files and be forgotten after a few days.”
10. Med shot, journalist
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Jilani, Vice President, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS):
“This was the phone of one of our EMS members, of the paramedics who was killed. So, the phone was on his body. The phone was in his pocket. So, it was with him. That's why we retrieved that video. There is a longer video, As I said, we will look into it, first of all, this is evidence, and we will deal with it as such.”
12. Wide shot, end of presser
The President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Dr. Younis Al-Khatib today (4 April) told reporters in New York that he had presented audiovisual evidence to the Security Council and had urged it “to support the call for an independent and thorough investigation” following the discovery of the bodies of eight missing medics from the PRCS in a mass grave in Gaza.
According to the he International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) an emergency medical team of nine disappeared along with their ambulances after they came under heavy fire in Al-Hashashin on 23 March. After seven days, the bodies of ambulance officers Mostafa Khufaga, Saleh Muamer and Ezzedine Shaath and first responder volunteers Mohammad Bahloul, Mohammed Al-Heila, Ashraf Abu Labda, Raed Al Sharif and Rifatt Radwan were retrieved. Ambulance officer Assad Al-Nassasra is still missing.
Describing the evidence, Al-Khatib said, “I heard the voice of one of those team members who was killed. And his phone was found with this body. And he recorded the whole event. His last words, before being shot. Forgive me, mom. I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives. And then he was killed.”
Al-Khatib said, “we were praying that they will be alive. They kept us for eight days in the dark. Now, the only information we know that Assad is missing. But there's somebody who knows whether Assad has been killed somewhere else, or Assad is detained in Israeli jails.”
The Vice President of the PRCS, Marwan Jilani, said, “I think the scale of this crime should force, that it should oblige the international community to do more and not to accept that this would be another incident that goes in the files and be forgotten after a few days.”
Asked how the video evidence presented to the Council was obtained, he said, “this was the phone of one of our EMS members, of the paramedics who was killed. So, the phone was on his body. The phone was in his pocket. So, it was with him. That's why we retrieved that video. There is a longer video, As I said, we will look into it, first of all, this is evidence, and we will deal with it as such.”
