“Al-Nasasra and Radwan were subjected to the heavy gunfire everyone heard in the recording and the very heavy gunfire which continued even after the recording ended as Israeli soldiers continued to shoot at them for a long time,” says Farsakh.

“Al-Nasasra took cover on the ground, at the back of the ambulance,” she adds. “He tried to hide and to protect himself as much as he could, digging himself into the ground. The body of Mohammed al-Heila, another aid worker killed, was above him.”

After the heavy gunfire, Nasasra heard Israeli soldiers approaching the vehicles, he said. The aid worker reported to the PRCS that some of the paramedics were still alive and injured but yelling for help.

“Al-Nasasra said the soldiers came to the scene very close – and then he heard them shooting everyone who was still alive,” Farsakh said.

PRCS said they believed Israeli troops did not shoot Nasasra as they believed him to be dead. But when they realised he was still alive, a soldier pointed a rifle at his head. Speaking in Hebrew, Nasasra pleaded for his life, telling them his mother was a Palestinian citizen of Israel.