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Jul 10 2026 10:18am
A firefight?

At approximately 5:09 AM on March 23, 2025, a convoy of clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck, and a UN vehicle approached a scene in Rafah to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier. The vehicles had their emergency lights on (THE IDF CLAIMED THEY DID NOT HAVE THEIR LIGHTS ON BUT CHANGED THEIR STORY WHEN VIDEO EVIDENCE CAME TO LIGHT) and the medics were in reflective uniforms. Analysis of video from paramedic Rifaat Radwan's phone shows the convoy stopping near a stricken ambulance when they were met with a hail of automatic weapons fire. Radwan and his colleagues are heard screaming, reciting prayers, and begging for help as the shooting continues for over six minutes. Israeli soldiers positioned on an elevated sandbank approximately 40 meters away opened fire without warning upon instructions from their commander. Forensic analysis documented at least 910 gunshots fired during the attack. THIS IS NOT DISPUTED BY THE IDF.

The medics were unarmed and did not return fire. THIS IS NOT DISPUTED BY THE IDF. The forensic investigation by Forensic Architecture and Earshot concluded there was "no exchange of fire in the area, and no tangible threat to the safety of those soldiers" and that the attack did not happen in a "hostile and dangerous combat zone" as Israel claimed.

Audio analysis tracked the soldiers moving downhill toward the convoy while continuing to fire. In the final moments, specific gunshots lack the supersonic crack typical of distance fire—ballistically indicating the shooter was within 1 to 4 meters of the victims. Survivor Assad al-Nassasra testified: "They were walking between [the aid workers] and shooting". Multiple sources report that several dead victims were found with their hands and feet bound. Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal stated that some were found with visible bullet wounds to their heads and chests, suggesting they were executed at close range after being identified. One civil defense worker was decapitated, and other bodies were found in pieces.

Satellite imagery and survivor testimony confirm that Israeli forces deployed bulldozers to the site, crushed the emergency vehicles, and buried them along with the 15 bodies, and again, none were armed, in a mass grave THIS IS NOT DISPUTED BY THE IDF. The burial also included equipment, uniforms, and phones—including Radwan's phone containing the video evidence.

The IDF initially claimed the convoy was "advancing suspiciously" without headlights or emergency signals. When video from Radwan's phone emerged showing the vehicles' lights were on, the IDF admitted its earlier statement was "incorrect" and "based solely on soldiers' accounts". The IDF dismissed the deputy battalion commander for providing an "incomplete and inaccurate report" but concluded no criminal charges were warranted. Israel has not committed to an independent investigation. The agencies the slain medics worked for rejected the IDF's findings and have called for an independent international investigation.

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There are so many red flags here its unreal. The IDF stated none of the medic's were armed. so how come 15 of them died, including at close range? Your narrative of a fire fight does not hold up. it was a one sided attack on a soft target. An execution.


Ferida, you are completely missing the distinction between a one-sided, tragic military failure and a premeditated execution.
You just laid out the timeline yourself, and it actually disproves your 'execution movie plot' narrative. Let’s look at the facts directly:
1. The 'Firefight' Context
When I used the term 'firefight,' I was referring to the broader tactical environment. As the timeline shows, earlier that morning, a Hamas police vehicle had just been targeted, and a firefight had occurred in that exact sector. The IDF soldiers were on high alert on that sandbank precisely because it was an active, hostile zone.
When the rescue convoy arrived, the soldiers catastrophically misidentified them as a threat. Yes, it was completely one-sided. Yes, the medics were unarmed. No one is disputing that. But a one-sided engagement where nervous, highly amped soldiers open fire from a distance because of a terrible command decision is a tragic operational failure it is not a 'lining people up against a wall' execution.
2. The Close-Range Ballistics and the Survivors
You are weaponizing the 'close-range' audio analysis to claim an execution, but you are completely ignoring the physical reality of how soldiers clear a scene:
* The Clearance Phase: When soldiers move down from a sandbank to secure a vehicle they just shot at, they are trained to 'neutralize threats' as they approach. If they see movement inside a darkened vehicle, or someone reaching down, they fire. In a high-stress clearance, shots are fired from 1 to 4 meters away to ensure the vehicle is secure. That is a brutal reality of urban warfare clearance protocols, not a summary execution of detainees.
* The Living Evidence: If the goal was a ruthless, systematic execution to wipe out witnesses, why did Asaad al-Nassasra and Munther Abed survive? Asaad al-Nassasra took cover and escaped while the soldiers were moving through. Munther Abed was physically pulled out alive, bound for interrogation, and released. If this were a movie-style execution squad, they wouldn't leave witnesses behind to talk to the media.
3. The Vehicles and the Burial

You keep acting like pushing vehicles into the dirt is proof of a conspiracy. In urban combat, clearing blocked routes is standard engineering protocol. Armored D9 bulldozers push wreckage off the road into sand berms so military transport can move.
As for the bodies, the IDF explicitly stated they gathered the remains and covered them with sand to protect them from the elements and wild dogs, and immediately sent the exact GPS coordinates to the UN so they could be retrieved. If you are trying to hide a mass grave and cover up a crime, you don't hand the UN a map with the exact coordinates to find the bodies and the phones.
4. The Institutional Accountability
You say the IDF 'lied' at first. The IDF admitted their initial report which relied on the panicked accounts of the soldiers on the ground was wrong once the video evidence came to light. They didn't double down; they admitted the error, dismissed the deputy battalion commander, and faced massive internal scrutiny.
There is a massive difference between a devastating, catastrophic command failure in a fog-of-war environment and a scripted war crime. The IDF investigated it, punished a commander, and acknowledged the tragedy. You want to turn a terrible military error into a cinematic conspiracy, but the actual logistics of the event just don't support it.
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Jul 10 2026 10:21am
1000 days of genocide just past.. if you look up genocide you will see israel is doing every example of genocide that you can find in it's definition ... but it just a war zone? And now the world has been affected by your madness ..partly thanks too Trump


Yea, Genocide where population grows😂😂
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Jul 10 2026 01:14pm
Ferida, you are completely missing the distinction between a one-sided, tragic military failure and a premeditated execution.
You just laid out the timeline yourself, and it actually disproves your 'execution movie plot' narrative. Let’s look at the facts directly:
1. The 'Firefight' Context
When I used the term 'firefight,' I was referring to the broader tactical environment. As the timeline shows, earlier that morning, a Hamas police vehicle had just been targeted, and a firefight had occurred in that exact sector. The IDF soldiers were on high alert on that sandbank precisely because it was an active, hostile zone.
When the rescue convoy arrived, the soldiers catastrophically misidentified them as a threat. Yes, it was completely one-sided. Yes, the medics were unarmed. No one is disputing that. But a one-sided engagement where nervous, highly amped soldiers open fire from a distance because of a terrible command decision is a tragic operational failure it is not a 'lining people up against a wall' execution.
2. The Close-Range Ballistics and the Survivors
You are weaponizing the 'close-range' audio analysis to claim an execution, but you are completely ignoring the physical reality of how soldiers clear a scene:
* The Clearance Phase: When soldiers move down from a sandbank to secure a vehicle they just shot at, they are trained to 'neutralize threats' as they approach. If they see movement inside a darkened vehicle, or someone reaching down, they fire. In a high-stress clearance, shots are fired from 1 to 4 meters away to ensure the vehicle is secure. That is a brutal reality of urban warfare clearance protocols, not a summary execution of detainees.
* The Living Evidence: If the goal was a ruthless, systematic execution to wipe out witnesses, why did Asaad al-Nassasra and Munther Abed survive? Asaad al-Nassasra took cover and escaped while the soldiers were moving through. Munther Abed was physically pulled out alive, bound for interrogation, and released. If this were a movie-style execution squad, they wouldn't leave witnesses behind to talk to the media.
3. The Vehicles and the Burial

You keep acting like pushing vehicles into the dirt is proof of a conspiracy. In urban combat, clearing blocked routes is standard engineering protocol. Armored D9 bulldozers push wreckage off the road into sand berms so military transport can move.
As for the bodies, the IDF explicitly stated they gathered the remains and covered them with sand to protect them from the elements and wild dogs, and immediately sent the exact GPS coordinates to the UN so they could be retrieved. If you are trying to hide a mass grave and cover up a crime, you don't hand the UN a map with the exact coordinates to find the bodies and the phones.
4. The Institutional Accountability
You say the IDF 'lied' at first. The IDF admitted their initial report which relied on the panicked accounts of the soldiers on the ground was wrong once the video evidence came to light. They didn't double down; they admitted the error, dismissed the deputy battalion commander, and faced massive internal scrutiny.
There is a massive difference between a devastating, catastrophic command failure in a fog-of-war environment and a scripted war crime. The IDF investigated it, punished a commander, and acknowledged the tragedy. You want to turn a terrible military error into a cinematic conspiracy, but the actual logistics of the event just don't support it.


Let me lay it all out. At no point do YOU provide details for any of these things, I have to go dig it up, and the more I dig, the worse it looks.

1. ~3:52 AM : First Attack: IDF shelling wounds Palestinians in Rafah. A Red Crescent Ambulance is sent to rescue them. The IDF fires on the ambulance. Two medics killed. One survives, is detained, beaten, interrogated. None of the individuals killed or beaten are declared by the IDF to be Hamas Terrorists.

The UN found that Israel has perpetrated a "concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system" with "deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities" . The UN Commission concluded these attacks constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. The PRCS president stated directly that "the Red Crescent emblem, which should be protected under international law, is being targeted instead". He emphasized: "More and more Red Cross and Red Crescent people are being targeted. A humanitarian worker who served in Gaza wrote that "the attack that killed them was not an aberration... It was an extension of Israel's spiralling strategy of targeted violence against healthcare and humanitarian workers" . He noted that since October 2023, over 1,400 medical personnel have been killed in Gaza. Euro-Med Monitor reported that the massacre of 15 first responders was part of a "systematic campaign to destroy the Gaza Strip's health and relief infrastructure". So we have first responders, WHO KNOW that wearing their uniform makes them a target of the IDF.

2. ~4:39 AM : Now the IDF KNOWS that it is standard procedure for The Red Crescent that, upon losing contact with the first ambulance, will send help. A convoy of 5 Ambulances and a Fire Engine, and a UN representative make their way to the 1st Ambulance. All clearly marked, lights on, uniforms on. This is monitored by the IDF. The IDF knows what it is looking at. Your argument is it does not know. I think you said fog of war. The order is given by the commander, Yehuda Vach, to shoot everyone.

So I went and wiki'd him : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Vach

This is the same commander that ordered his men to shoot at Palestinians at the food stations, and set up a kill zone to kill civilians in Gaza city. Soon after taking command of 252 Division in July 2024, he reportedly instructed his officers that "there are no innocents in Gaza", echoing President Isaac Herzog's assertion that the "entire nation" of Palestinians was responsible for October 7 and that there were no civilians in Gaza "not involved". This became operational doctrine under Vach, meaning "everyone's a terrorist", which effectively allowed his soldiers permission to kill any Palestinian at will.

Your fog of war is becoming pretty clear to me. You did not like the term "executed" which was a term I used. I did not fully understand why you did not like that term. I initially meant, the IDF killed the Medic's at close range. I did not think it was premeditated. But you forced me to have a good look at what happened and now Yes, that is my belief. It was a premeditated assassination of Medic's, in keeping with that IDF Commanders military doctrine, which anyone can read all about in his Wiki. They attacked the first ambulance and then used it as bait for the convoy. They then fired on the convoy, then executed the survivors at close range, before throwing all the bodies in a mass grave. The IDF then crushed the vehicles and buried everything under the sand.

Help me understand this. Lets pretend I am Israeli. In the IDF. It is 5am, March, 2025, and I am with my fellow IDF soldiers. My commander has told me that every Palestinian is a member of Hamas. There are no innocents. There is an active IDF operation in the area, sure, we are that operation. The area has not been declared a red zone, but its super dangerous for civilians, because there are no civilians right? only terrorists. We get intel that a convoy is approaching - right on schedule. We have then in a kill box and the commander, used to killing civilians, gives the order, and, I follow the order? because soldiers follow orders. We then approach the ambulances and another order is given - kill them. So we do that. Because soldiers follow orders. We then dig a pit, we are used to that by now, because burying terrorists in mass graves is operating procedure, not the first time we dumped people into a mass grave and wont be the last time, and then we arrange for the ambulances to be crushed and buried under the sand with the dead bodies. What do we do now? high five?

so to circle all the way back, you dismissed this event as a Hoax. I did not want to go here, i did not want to know all this information but now i do. you said:

Why the Examples Matter? You say I should argue the premise, not the examples. That is a classic debater's cop-out when their evidence fails them.


my response remains, if you want to dismiss an example i give (and this ambulances incident is just one of many!!) on the basis that the evidence fails, then honestly, pick a hill to stand on where there is no evidence, because this incident has so much evidence its impossible for you to justify what happened.

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I honestly do not understand why you would even invite me to find out more about this event. It goes back to what I said yesterday - Faith. You honestly do not see any issue with any of the above, and it did not matter what I would find because you already made up your mind to defend the IDF no matter what.

This post was edited by ferdia on Jul 10 2026 01:24pm
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