The video, retrieved from the phone of a medic killed in the incident and later published by The New York Times, directly contradicts Israel's initial account.

Israel's military claimed the emergency vehicles had approached "suspiciously" without headlights or emergency indicators.

The Gaza Government Media Office rejected that explanation, stating the video "exposes the lies of the Israeli occupation army."

“We demand an urgent and independent international investigation into the crime of executing medical and civil defence personnel, and bringing the Israeli occupation’s war criminals before the International Criminal Court,” the office said in a statement.

The footage, which has been widely circulated on Palestinian media platforms, appears to show medics and civil defence workers wearing high-visibility gear and driving clearly marked ambulances with emergency lights on.

Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), warned against the growing normalization of attacks on humanitarian workers.

“They believed their Red Crescent-marked vehicles would make it clear who was inside and their purpose,” Chapagain wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian.

“They believed international humanitarian law meant something; that healthcare workers would be protected. They assumed that meant they would not be a target. But they were wrong. Tragically, horrifically wrong.”

Chapagain added that the deaths of the medics in Gaza form part of a worrying global trend.

“So I’m writing with a plea. Make that assumption right again. Those deaths in Gaza – while especially awful – were part of a growing trend. More and more humanitarian aid workers are being killed around the world. The trend must be reversed.”

Footage cited by The New York Times supports Chapagain’s concerns, showing the medics in clearly marked emergency vehicles, in contradiction to the Israeli military’s assertion that the convoy lacked visual identification.

“I am outraged. But I’m also tired of being outraged,” Chapagain concluded.

“Humanitarian aid workers must be protected. For the sake, quite simply, of humanity.”