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      <title>Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank
        Range in 2025 Massacre: Report</title>
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        Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900
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                        Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025
                        Massacre: Report</a></h1>
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                      minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by
                      Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli
                      soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid
                      workers, killing 15.</h3>
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                          held at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in
                          southern Gaza, for aid workers from the
                          Palestinian Red Crescent who were killed in an
                          Israeli attack in Tel al-Sultan. March 31,
                          2025. Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Israeli
                      soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets during
                      the massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in
                      southern Gaza on March 23, 2025\u2014with at least
                      eight shots fired at point blank range\u2014according
                      to a joint investigation by the independent
                      research groups Earshot and Forensic Architecture.
                      The report, based on eyewitness testimony and
                      audio and visual analysis, shows that a number of
                      aid workers were executed and that at least one
                      was shot from as close as one meter away.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      Tel al-Sultan that day, Israel killed eight aid
                      workers with the Palestine Red Crescent Society
                      (PRCS), six from Palestinian Civil Defense, and a
                      UN relief agency staffer. It immediately triggered
                      international condemnation and was described as
                      \u201cone of the darkest moments\u201d of the war by PRCS.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      Israeli military was forced to change its story
                      about the ambush several times, following the
                      discovery of the bodies in a mass grave, along
                      with their flattened vehicles, and the emergence
                      of video and audio recordings taken by the aid
                      workers. An internal military inquiry ultimately
                      did not recommend any criminal action against the
                      army units responsible for the incident.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      report by Earshot and Forensic Architecture
                      reconstructs, minute by minute, how the massacre
                      unfolded. Using video and audio recordings from
                      the incident, open-source images and videos,
                      satellite imagery, social media posts, and other
                      materials, as well as in-depth interviews with two
                      survivors of the attack, the groups were able to
                      digitally reconstruct the scene and events
                      surrounding the massacre.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      investigation\u2019s findings include:</p>
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                      <li
style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">Israeli
                          soldiers ambushed and subjected Palestinian
                          aid workers to a near continuous assault for
                          over two hours even though the soldiers never
                          came under fire.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <ul style="margin-top: 0;padding: 0;">
                      <li
style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">At
                          least 910 gunshots were documented across
                          three video and audio recordings of the
                          attack. The vast majority of these gunshots,
                          at least 844, were fired over just five
                          minutes and 30 seconds.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <ul style="margin-top: 0;padding: 0;">
                      <li
style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">At
                          least 93% of the gunshots recorded in the
                          first minutes of the attack were fired
                          directly towards the emergency vehicles and
                          aid workers by Israeli soldiers. During this
                          time, at least five shooters fired
                          simultaneously. Witness testimonies suggest as
                          many as 30 soldiers were present in the area.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <ul style="margin-top: 0;padding: 0;">
                      <li
style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">Israeli
                          soldiers were initially positioned on an
                          elevated sandbank by the road, with no
                          obstructions limiting their line of sight. The
                          emergency lights and markings of the victims\u2019
                          vehicles would have been clearly visible to
                          the soldiers at the time of the attacks.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <ul style="margin-top: 0;padding: 0;">
                      <li
style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">Israeli
                          soldiers first maintained fixed firing
                          positions from the elevated sandbank, then
                          walked toward the aid workers while continuing
                          to shoot. Upon reaching the aid workers, the
                          soldiers moved between them and the vehicles
                          and executed some of the aid workers at point
                          blank range, as close as one meter away.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
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style="margin: 8px 0 0 32px;mso-special-format: bullet;">
                        <p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;margin-bottom: 0;box-sizing: border-box;padding-left: 4px;font-size: 16px;margin: 0;">In
                          the immediate aftermath of the attack, the
                          Israeli military conducted extensive
                          earthworks at the site. In the days and weeks
                          that followed, the area was further
                          transformed by the Israeli military\u2019s
                          construction of the \u201cMorag Corridor,\u201d a
                          security zone splitting the southern Gaza
                          Strip, and the erection of an aid distribution
                          site operated by the Israeli- and U.S.-backed
                          Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.</p>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThis
                      seems to be a very well documented case using a
                      number of forms of credible evidence that are
                      cross referenced,\u201d Katherine Gallagher, a senior
                      staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional
                      Rights, told Drop Site after reviewing a detailed
                      summary of the investigation. \u201cIt presents a very
                      compelling case, and honestly, a very devastating
                      one.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      Israeli military did not respond to specific
                      inquiries from Drop Site and instead pointed to
                      the findings of an internal investigation
                      published on April 20 that found \u201cthe incident
                      occurred in a hostile and dangerous combat zone,
                      under a widespread threat to the operating
                      troops.\u201d It also \u201cfound no evidence to support
                      claims of execution,\u201d which it called \u201cblood
                      libels and false accusations against IDF
                      soldiers.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        joint report will be released February 24 at a
                        gathering at British parliament in Westminster
                        hosted by the British Palestinian Committee with
                        Earshot, Forensic Architecture, and the
                        international humanitarian law coordinator for
                        PRCS, Dana Abu Koash. </span><strong><span>The
                          full report is available </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6bce3542-21c9-4d8d-8a5a-67d4775a9527?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                          rel=""
                          style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                          moz-do-not-send="true">here</a><span>.</span></strong></p>
                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.625em;"><strong>How
                        the Massacre Unfolded</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">On
                      March 23, 2025 at 3:52 a.m., PRCS dispatched two
                      ambulances from two different areas to the scene
                      of an Israeli airstrike in Al-Hashashin, an area
                      near Rafah. Israel had resumed its scorched earth
                      bombing campaign on Gaza a few days earlier after
                      abandoning the January 2025 ceasefire agreement.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        attack on the aid workers began at approximately
                        4:00 a.m. when one of the ambulances driving
                        along Gush Katif road in Al-Hashashin came under
                        Israeli fire. The vehicle had its emergency
                        lights turned on at the time. Mustafa Khafaja,
                        who was driving, lost control of the vehicle,
                        which veered left off the road and stopped near
                        an electricity pole. Khafaja and his colleague,
                        Ezz El-Din Shaat, who was in the passenger seat,
                        were both killed. A third PRCS worker, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9d35b678-d8bc-4e2c-b3bc-ceb912292d78?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
                        style="color: #00058c;text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">Munther Abed</a><span>,
                        who was in the back of the vehicle, threw
                        himself to the floor of the van and survived.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">After
                      the shooting stopped, Israeli soldiers approached
                      the ambulance and dragged Abed out of the car,
                      beat him, and detained him at a nearby pit.
                      Sometime later, two Palestinian civilians\u2014a father
                      and son from the Bardawil family\u2014were also
                      detained and brought to the pit. The Israeli
                      soldiers then took the three detainees to an
                      elevated area behind a tall concrete structure
                      some 38 to 48 meters southeast of the ambulance,
                      where an additional group of Israeli soldiers were
                      positioned.</p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="1200" style="text-align: center;"><a
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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/54c63eaa-f239-4d7c-9bbc-c38430217674_2456x677.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:401,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:769667,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.dropsitenews.com/i/188815681?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54c63eaa-f239-4d7c-9bbc-c38430217674_2456x677.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
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style="border: none !important;vertical-align: middle;display: block;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;height: auto;margin-bottom: 0;width: auto !important;max-width: 100% !important;margin: 0 auto;"
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                            </tr>
                          </tbody>
                        </table>
                        <figcaption class="image-caption"
style="box-sizing: content-box;color: rgb(119,119,119);font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: -.15px;margin-top: 8px;width: 70%;padding-left: 15%;padding-right: 15%;text-align: center;">Still
                          from the situated testimony with Munther Abed
                          recounting the location of the pit and the
                          area behind the tall concrete structure where
                          he was taken when detained by Israeli
                          soldiers. (Forensic Architecture, 2026).</figcaption></figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">By
                      4:35 a.m., the second ambulance, having completed
                      its mission in Al-Hashashin, was dispatched to
                      search for the first ambulance, which had lost
                      contact with PRCS headquarters at 3:55 a.m. The
                      second ambulance was joined by two more PRCS
                      ambulances, one belonging to Civil Defense, and a
                      Civil Defense fire truck. The five-vehicle rescue
                      convoy arrived at the scene of the attack of the
                      first ambulance shortly after 5:00 a.m. All
                      vehicles were clearly marked and had their
                      emergency lights turned on.</p>
                    <div class="captioned-image-container-static"
style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
                      <figure style="width: 100%;margin: 0 auto;">
                        <table class="image-wrapper" width="100%"
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                          style="mso-padding-alt: 1em 0 1.6em;">
                          <tbody>
                            <tr>
                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="1200" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6b87278c-57ff-4681-b567-0651d0f72eaa?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                                    class="wide-image"
data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/700a282d-08b6-4038-ade2-6d7ba82b20c4_2900x2160.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1084,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:1944089,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.dropsitenews.com/i/188815681?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F700a282d-08b6-4038-ade2-6d7ba82b20c4_2900x2160.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
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style="border: none !important;vertical-align: middle;display: block;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;height: auto;margin-bottom: 0;width: auto !important;max-width: 100% !important;margin: 0 auto;"
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                            </tr>
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                        </table>
                        <figcaption class="image-caption"
style="box-sizing: content-box;color: rgb(119,119,119);font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: -.15px;margin-top: 8px;width: 70%;padding-left: 15%;padding-right: 15%;text-align: center;">The
                          position of each ambulance as the shooting
                          began. (Forensic Architecture, 2026)</figcaption></figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
                      PRCS worker in one of the ambulances, Refaat
                      Radwan, began filming on his phone as they drove
                      to the site. His recovered videos as well as
                      recordings of phone calls by two other aid workers
                      at the scene to PRCS dispatch provided crucial
                      evidence of the massacre. Forensic Architecture
                      and Earshot\u2019s analysis of the recordings
                      corroborated eyewitness testimony on the positions
                      and movements of the Israeli soldiers throughout
                      the attack.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
                      5:09 a.m., as the aid workers parked and
                      approached the first ambulance by foot, Israeli
                      soldiers positioned on the elevated sandbank
                      opened fire. A digital reconstruction of the scene
                      shows that the soldiers would have had an
                      uninterrupted view of the arrival of the convoy.
                      Abed, who was being detained at gunpoint on the
                      elevated sandbank, testified that the soldiers
                      were kneeling and aiming their weapons at the
                      convoy as it approached.</p>
                    <div
class="video-player-with-background is-static video-player-wrapper"
                      role="region" aria-label="Video player"
style="flex-grow: 1;font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin-top: 0.5em;"><a
class="video-player video-player-with-background"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1dd66d9e-f452-4ebd-a6b5-6ffae7c158da?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
style="position: relative;display: block;width: 100%;cursor: pointer;background-color: rgb(0,0,0);height: auto;border-radius: 8px;padding-bottom: 0"
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                          class="video-player-preview" width="550"
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                    <h6
style="font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;">Locations
                      of all emergency vehicles at the incident site at
                      5:10 a.m. relative to Munther Abed and the Israeli
                      soldiers who detained him. From their position,
                      the soldiers would have been able to clearly see
                      the convoy\u2019s arrival with their emergency lights
                      on. (Forensic Architecture, 2026).</h6>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><br>
                      <span>The Israeli soldiers remained on the
                        sandbank while firing continuously at the aid
                        workers for four minutes. The soldiers then
                        advanced towards the aid workers at a walking
                        pace of approximately one meter per second while
                        continuously shooting.</span></p>
                    <div
class="video-player-with-background is-static video-player-wrapper"
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style="flex-grow: 1;font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin-top: 0.5em;"><a
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                          class="video-player-preview" width="550"
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                    <h6
style="font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;">Echolocation
                      of Israeli soldiers approaching the aid workers
                      during the final 1 minute and 30 seconds.
                      (Earshot, 2026).</h6>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><br>
                      <span>Upon reaching the vehicles, the Israeli
                        soldiers continued to fire as they walked in
                        between the ambulances and the fire truck,
                        shooting the aid workers at close range in
                        execution-style killings.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
                      approximately 5:13 a.m., PRCS aid worker Ashraf
                      Abu Libda called the group\u2019s headquarters. The
                      recording, which overlaps Radwan\u2019s video, provided
                      additional details. In this recording, Earshot
                      found that at least eight gunshots were fired from
                      positions between the emergency vehicles. One of
                      the gunshots captured on Abu Libda\u2019s phone call
                      was fired from a range of one to four meters from
                      him. The gunshots coincide with the last time Abu
                      Libda\u2019s voice is heard on the call, suggesting
                      these are the gunshots that killed him.</p>
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class="video-player-with-background is-static video-player-wrapper"
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                    <h6
style="font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;">Echolocation
                      of Israeli soldiers as close as 1 to 4 meters from
                      aid workers and most likely close-range execution.
                      (Earshot, 2026).</h6>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><br>
                      <span>At least 844 gunshots were fired over a
                        period of five minutes and 30 seconds, with at
                        least 93% of the shots fired toward the
                        emergency vehicles. The audio ballistics
                        analysis confirms the presence of at least five
                        shooters\u2014and possibly many more\u2014firing
                        simultaneously. The two surviving PRCS aid
                        workers, Munther Abed and Asaad Al-Nasasra,
                        testified that between 12 and 30 soldiers were
                        at the scene.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
                      reconstruction was jointly achieved with the two
                      survivors of the incident, with an immersive
                      spatial model they could walk through and amend.
                      Together with spatial and audio analysis we
                      established the position of the soldiers on an
                      elevated ground with an unobstructed line of sight
                      to the emergency vehicles. The soldiers could
                      clearly see the aid workers, shot at them
                      continuously and deliberately from this position
                      and then approached to execute them one by one at
                      close range,\u201d Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of
                      research at Forensic Architecture, told Drop Site.
                      \u201cLocating the massacre within the evolution of
                      Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza shows that it was not an
                      isolated incident but part of the genocide.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Earshot
                      used echolocation to analyze the audio on the
                      recordings in order to arrive at precise estimates
                      of the shooters\u2019 locations. Echolocation is the
                      process of locating the source of a sound based on
                      an analysis of the sound\u2019s echoes and the
                      environment in which the sound travels. The
                      Israeli military destroyed and cleared so many
                      buildings in the Tel Al-Sultan area where the
                      ambush of the aid workers took place that very few
                      structures remained. This destruction actually
                      strengthened Earshot\u2019s ability to determine the
                      positions and movements of Israeli soldiers, based
                      on identifying the surfaces responsible for
                      clearly distinguishable gunshot echoes. Rather
                      than having multiple buildings reflecting the
                      sound waves, there were only a few standing walls
                      and the emergency vehicles themselves.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      analysis of the video and audio corroborated
                      Al-Nasasra\u2019s eyewitness testimony that Israeli
                      soldiers \u201ccame down [from the sandbank], got close
                      to [the aid workers] and shot them from close
                      range,\u201d and \u201cwere walking between [the aid
                      workers] and shooting.\u201d</p>
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style="box-sizing: content-box;color: rgb(119,119,119);font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: -.15px;margin-top: 8px;width: 70%;padding-left: 15%;padding-right: 15%;text-align: center;">Map
                          showing the Israeli soldier\u2019s positions
                          derived from an audio analysis of gunshot
                          echoes from Refaat Radwan\u2019s video. (Earshot,
                          2026).</figcaption></figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cEarshot
                      forensically analyzed over 900 gunshots fired at
                      aid workers. It took one whole year of careful
                      listening to reconstruct an auditory picture of
                      what happened that dark night,\u201d Lawrence Abu
                      Hamdan, the director of Earshot, told Drop Site.
                      \u201cI am so proud that our work has corroborated the
                      survivors\u2019 testimony, establishing their brave
                      accounts as accurate and reliable documentation of
                      what occurred that day. Yet, it is the echoes of
                      this event that continue to haunt us: the
                      destruction and clearing of Tel al-Sultan left
                      only three structures standing at this crime
                      scene. While the few echoes reflecting off these
                      buildings brought light to this crime, they have
                      also revealed a scale of erasure of life beyond
                      this one event.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>According
                        to autopsy reports first reported by the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e6f610dc-b299-4c18-8a67-49f1189cd5cb?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Guardian</a><span>, the
                        aid worker who filmed the video\u2014Radwan\u2014was shot
                        in the head, while Abu Libda and another aid
                        worker, Muhammad Bahloul, were shot in the
                        chest. A doctor who examined the bodies
                        reportedly described the \u201cspecific and
                        intentional location of shots at close range\u201d as
                        indicative of an \u201cexecution-style\u201d shooting.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">More
                      than two hours after the initial attack, a clearly
                      marked UN vehicle, a Toyota Hilux, passed by the
                      site. Israeli soldiers fired on the vehicle,
                      killing the driver. The UN lost contact with the
                      vehicle at 6:00 a.m. A second UN vehicle, a
                      minibus, arrived in the area minutes later and was
                      brought to a stop by gunfire a little over 200
                      meters away. The driver was able to escape.</p>
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                                width="1200" style="text-align: center;"><a
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style="box-sizing: content-box;color: rgb(119,119,119);font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: -.15px;margin-top: 8px;width: 70%;padding-left: 15%;padding-right: 15%;text-align: center;">Left:
                          Photograph of the UN Toyota Hilux taken on the
                          30 March 2025, when the bodies of the victims
                          were recovered. (OCHA, 2025). Right: Still
                          from the situated testimony with Asaad
                          recounting the location of the UN Toyota Hilux
                          when brought to a stop. (Forensic
                          Architecture, 2026). </figcaption></figure>
                    </div>
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                        <figcaption class="image-caption"
style="box-sizing: content-box;color: rgb(119,119,119);font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: -.15px;margin-top: 8px;width: 70%;padding-left: 15%;padding-right: 15%;text-align: center;">Annotated
                          3D model showing the position of two UN
                          vehicles in relation to the missing ambulance
                          and the convoy of emergency vehicles.
                          (Forensic Architecture, 2026).</figcaption></figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Between
                      6:55 and 7:13 a.m., Al-Nasasra made a phone call
                      to PRCS headquarters that captured at least 42
                      additional gunshots and the sound of vehicle
                      movement. The recording also captured the sound of
                      an explosion the investigation identified as the
                      firing of an Israeli-made Spike LR guided missile.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Following
                      the ambush, Israeli forces crushed all eight
                      vehicles using heavy machinery and attempted to
                      bury them under the sand.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      body of Anwar al-Attar was found near the ambush
                      site on March 27, and the bodies of the other 14
                      aid workers, all wearing identifying uniforms or
                      volunteer vests of their respective organizations,
                      were found in a mass grave near the site on March
                      30.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      15 aid workers killed were: Mustafa Khafaja, Ezz
                      El-Din Shaat, Saleh Muammar, Refaat Radwan,
                      Muhammad Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Libda, Muhammad
                      al-Hila, and Raed al-Sharif with PRCS. Zuhair
                      Abdul Hamid al-Farra, Samir Yahya al-Bahapsa,
                      Ibrahim Nabil al-Maghari, Fouad Ibrahim al-Jamal,
                      Youssef Rassem Khalifa, and Anwar al-Attar with
                      Civil Defense. Kamal Mohammed Shahtout with UNRWA.</p>
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                          still from the 3D model showing the location
                          of the bodies of aid workers and their
                          vehicles before the mass burial. (Forensic
                          Architecture, 2026).</figcaption></figure>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">One
                      of the survivors, Abed, was released hours after
                      the ambush. The other survivor, Asaad, was held in
                      Israeli custody without charge for 37 days,
                      tortured, and interrogated in relation to the
                      incident at the Sde Teiman detention camp, a
                      notorious Israeli prison camp in the Negev desert,
                      before being released on April 29.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Jonathan
                      Whittall, a senior UN official in Palestine
                      between 2022 and 2025, was one of team members on
                      the ground when the mass grave was discovered on
                      March 30 and provided evidence to Forensic
                      Architecture and Earshot for their investigation.
                      \u201cFollowing our discovery of the mass grave, the
                      narrative from Israeli forces shifted multiple
                      times; we were fed several versions of a blatant
                      lie,\u201d Whittall told Drop Site. \u201cThe men we
                      retrieved on Eid last year were medics. We found
                      them in their uniforms, ready to save lives, only
                      to be killed by Israeli forces fully aware of
                      their protected status.\u201d Whittall, who is now
                      executive Director of KEYS Initiative, a political
                      affairs and strategic advisory organization, has
                      also contributed reporting to Drop Site News. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThis
                      illustrates an abhorrent disregard for
                      international law,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhere any
                      Palestinian in an Israeli-designated evacuation
                      zone is targeted regardless of their civilian
                      status. It highlights the total lack of
                      accountability under which these forces operate.
                      International governments continue to arm and
                      trade with a leadership accused of genocide, whose
                      soldiers massacred medics and buried them in a
                      grave marked by the siren light of the ambulance
                      they destroyed.\u201d</p>
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                          Red Crescent aid workers mourn the killing of
                          their colleagues by the Israeli military in
                          Tel al-Sultan as their bodies are brought to
                          Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in southern
                          Gaza. March 30, 2025. (Photo by Abdallah F.s.
                          Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images).</figcaption></figure>
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                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.625em;"><strong>A
                        Lack of Accountability</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      the aftermath of the massacre, the Israeli
                      military provided several conflicting versions of
                      events to justify the killings. On March 28, after
                      the discovery of al-Attar\u2019s body, the Israeli
                      military admitted that its soldiers had fired on
                      \u201cambulances and fire trucks.\u201d Three days later,
                      after the remaining bodies were discovered in a
                      mass grave, the Israeli military claimed that
                      \u201cseveral uncoordinated vehicles were identified
                      advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without
                      headlights or emergency signals.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">After
                      footage from Radwan\u2019s phone was first published by
                      the New York Times a few days later, the Israeli
                      military backtracked on its claims that the
                      vehicles did not have emergency signals on when
                      Israeli troops opened fire, saying the statement
                      was inaccurate.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        Israeli military then announced on April 20 that
                        an internal </span><a
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                        the incident had found the killings were caused
                        by \u201cseveral professional failures, breaches of
                        orders, and a failure to fully report the
                        incident.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      Israeli military said troops from the Golani
                      reconnaissance battalion were involved in the
                      attack. However, it said soldiers did not engage
                      in \u201cindiscriminate fire\u201d during the incident, but
                      that they opened fire on what they believed to be
                      a \u201ctangible threat\u201d amid what the military called
                      an \u201coperational misunderstanding.\u201d It blamed the
                      attacks on \u201cpoor night visibility\u201d and maintained
                      the incident had unfolded in a \u201chostile and
                      dangerous combat zone, under a widespread threat
                      to the operating troops.\u201d Six of the fifteen
                      Palestinians killed, the military said, \u201cwere
                      identified in a retrospective examination as Hamas
                      terrorists,\u201d but provided no evidence to support
                      the claim.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cOn
                      the specific question of Israel justifying the
                      attack on clearly marked medical personnel because
                      of suspicions of membership in groups or links to
                      groups or terrorism\u2014because there is an
                      affirmative duty to respect and protect medical
                      personnel, you don\u2019t shoot first, you protect
                      first,\u201d Gallagher told Drop Site. \u201cBut what this
                      investigation reveals is that there was a shoot
                      first policy, and that is unlawful under
                      international law.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
                      for the burial of the bodies in a mass grave, the
                      Israeli military said in its report \u201cit was
                      decided to gather and cover the bodies to prevent
                      further harm and clear the vehicles from the route
                      in preparation for civilian evacuation. The body
                      removal and vehicle crushing were carried out by
                      field commanders.\u201d It concluded, \u201cremoving the
                      bodies was reasonable under the circumstances, but
                      the decision to crush the vehicles was wrong. In
                      general, there was no attempt to conceal the
                      event.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
                      a result of the investigation, the commanding
                      officer of the 14th Brigade received a letter of
                      reprimand for \u201chis overall responsibility for the
                      incident,\u201d while the deputy commander of the
                      Golani reconnaissance battalion involved in the
                      incident was \u201cdismissed from his position due to
                      his responsibilities as the field commander and
                      for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report
                      during the debrief.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      inquiry did not recommend any criminal action be
                      taken against the military units responsible for
                      the incident. The Palestine Red Crescent Society,
                      Civil Defense, and the UN humanitarian agency in
                      Gaza all rejected the Israeli military report.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cAttacks
                      on medical personnel and those who are identified
                      as medical personnel are patently unlawful under
                      international law, and there is an affirmative
                      obligation to protect medical personnel in the
                      context of armed conflict. So the very first thing
                      is that there\u2019s a breach of that very clear and
                      time honored principle of international
                      humanitarian law,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cWhen you zoom
                      out and look at this in the context of the way the
                      Israeli assault has been carried out over many
                      months and years in Gaza and we see that there is
                      a pattern and practice of attacks on medical
                      personnel\u2014similar to journalists and other groups
                      that are explicitly and uniquely protected as
                      classes of civilians in international humanitarian
                      law\u2014it raises even more questions and deep concern
                      about the lack of accountability, because what we
                      know is that impunity breeds repetition.\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Gallagher,
                      who previously worked at the UN\u2019s International
                      Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, said
                      that a legal analysis of the massacre would find
                      serious violations of the Rome Statute of the
                      International Criminal Court. \u201cWhen you\u2019re talking
                      about grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, in
                      particular war crimes, you have obligations, not
                      just the possibility, but obligations, to open
                      investigations,\u201d Gallagher said.</p>
                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.625em;"><strong>Transforming
                        the Site of the Massacre into a GHF Hub</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Satellite
                      imagery from the morning of the ambush shows that
                      extensive earthworks were carried out at the
                      incident site. The images reveal the construction
                      of an earth berm approximately 220 meters north of
                      the ambush location and another roughly 410 meters
                      to the south. These two positions later functioned
                      as checkpoints, restricting access and controlling
                      passage along an evacuation route established that
                      morning by the Israeli military leading toward the
                      coastal Al-Mawasi area.</p>
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                      earthworks that began shortly after the attack
                      were used in the construction of a Gaza
                      Humanitarian Foundation \u201caid distribution\u201d site,
                      at which civilians were targeted and shot
                      at.\u202f(Forensic Architecture, 2026).</h6>
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                      <span>In the days and weeks that followed, the
                        area surrounding the incident site was further
                        transformed by the Israeli military\u2019s
                        construction of the \u201cMorag Corridor\u201d security
                        zone and the erection of an aid distribution
                        site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian
                        Foundation.</span></p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cOn
                      that same site of the mass grave, the Gaza
                      Humanitarian Foundation established a distribution
                      point where desperate people were gunned down
                      trying to access food,\u201d Whittall told Drop Site.
                      \u201cNow, the U.S, under the so-called Board of Peace,
                      plans to build a \u2018New Rafah\u2019 over this crime
                      scene. Without meaningful accountability, \u2018New
                      Rafah\u2019 will be a monument to impunity.\u201d</p>
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