There was fear in the voices of the Palestinian rescuers as their convoy moved along darkened roads near Rafah to the spot where they believed a team of their colleagues lay injured.
It was the night of March 23 and even for dangerous Gaza, those in the vehicles appeared to realize their rescue mission involved extreme peril.
“Those bastards — they’re only targeting our teams,” said Rifaat Radwan, a paramedic riding in one of the lead vehicles who turned on his phone’s camera. The full footage was later released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Radwan’s team was headed to where the other group had been attacked a few hours earlier by Israel’s military.
By early morning, he and 14 others — all paramedics or aid workers, according to the United Nations — would be dead, their bodies buried in a mass grave alongside their crushed vehicles.
For more than a week and a half, the Israel Defence Forces …