Farnaz Fassihi

2 weeks ago | telegraphindia.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Christoph Koettl

Officials from the Palestine Red Crescent Society said in a news conference on Friday at the UN moderated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that they had presented the nearly seven-minute recording, which was obtained by The New York Times, to the UN Security Council Farnaz Fassihi, Christoph Koettl Published 06.04.25, 05:38 AM A screenshot taken from a Palestinian Red Crescent video and obtained from the smartphone of a killed paramedic shows the last...

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi

A video recording, discovered on the cellphone of one of the paramedics who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah in late March and obtained by The New York Times, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were travelling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Christoph Koettl

The Times verified the location and timing of the video. Filmed from what appears to be the front interior of a moving vehicle, it shows a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, clearly marked with headlights and flashing lights turned on, driving south on a road to the north of Rafah in the early morning. The first rays of sun can be seen, and birds are chirping.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi

On that day, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, ambulances and a U.N. vehicle came under attack from Israel's military, then went silent. On Sunday, rescue teams found 15 bodies, most in a shallow mass grave along with their crushed ambulances and the vehicle marked with the U.N. logo. The United Nations, which is typically cautious about assigning blame, accused Israel of killing them. An Israeli military spokesman, Lt. Col.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Farnaz Fassihi

As Israeli forces advanced on the southern Gaza city of Rafah before dawn last Sunday, an ambulance crew set out to evacuate civilians wounded by Israeli shelling. But the ambulance was hit on the way, and its crew injured. Several more ambulances and a fire truck headed to the scene, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, as did a U.N. vehicle, the United Nations said. Seventeen people were dispatched in total. Then they all went silent.