Refaat Radwan recorded his last mission and his own final breaths.
He turned from the third ambulance in a convoy, which included a fire truck, which was out to find an ambulance of Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) who had lost contact with his base.
All the convoy vehicles were clearly marked, with flashing emergency lights.
In the video, the crew members see the missing ambulance next to the road and the approach, mumbling the prayers for the safety of their colleagues.
Then a voice says: “They are scattered on the ground! Look, look!” And Refaat lacks his ambulance with other doctors to check the acided workers.
Then, the noise of the bullets resounded while Israeli soldiers shoot on uniform doctors who were running to help the doctors they had already killed. Refaat was affected.
In his last moments, he prayed and called his mother several times to forgive him – to have chosen the path of an ambulance, endangering himself.
Israeli soldiers killed eight PRC workers that evening, as well as six Palestinian Civil Defense workers who was out for the same mission.
A ninth paramedical paramedic, Assaad al-Nassasra, has been captured.
Here are the doctors of the Red Crescent, Israel has embedded that day, through the eyes of the people who loved them:
Calm: Ashraf Abu Labda
With her glasses and serious face, Ashraf has always been a reassuring presence for his colleagues.
The 32 -year -old doctor started to volunteer with the PRCs in 2021.
He quickly integrated into the PRCS community, ensuring that all his colleagues had a meal for Iftar during Ramadan. He was cooked in the center of the center himself or would bring part of his family’s food from his home to share.
In September 2023, he married and a month later, Israel launched his genocidal war against Gaza.
When he was killed, he left his wife and their two -month -old daughter, Wiam.
The family man: Ezzeddin Shaath
Ezzeddin was 51 years old when Israeli soldiers killed him and a father with six children.
The dedicated family man had a great sense of humor, but the war against Gaza is undressed when he gradually stopped laughing.
He joined the PRCs in 2000 and four years later, he married Nivine, with whom he had four boys and two girls.
At work, there has been a kind of caregiver, making sure that his colleagues rest at least a little every night and something to eat.
His motto on the rescue work was: “If it is written, we will come back (from a mission), and if we do not return, it is our destiny,” his colleague Ibrahim Abu al-Kass told Al Jazeera.
The Miracle Worker: Mohamed Bahloul
A seven-year-old veteran of the Red Crescent, Mohamed, 36, loved his work, as any of his colleagues would tell you.
During the crises, he remained at the Red Crescent, returning home to see his wife and six children once a week.
Her children were three months old to 11 when Israel killed Mohamed. Mar and confused, children cling to the thought that their father died on a humanitarian mission, making him a “martyr”.
His colleagues remember him for just understanding things, said Abu al-Kass. If Mohamed heard about a family who was moved and needed help, he would get there.
As he could not use ambulances to move people’s business, he was going to speak his family and friends well until he finds transport and shelter for those who were moved.
Rescuers: Mustafa Khafaga and Mohamed al-Heila
Mustafa was 50 years old with a 15 -year -old son, and Mohamed was 23 years old and single, but when they got together, their buffoonemeries were legendary.
“One rainy day, these two worked when they saw an elderly woman trying to cross the road, but it was too wet and slippery,” said Abu al-Kass.
“So they looked at each other. One said: “So, are we partners or what? No matter what mission is? And the other said: “Of course we are!” “”
They went to get a chair and brought her to the woman, asked her to sit down, then raised the chair and crossed her carefully on the road, radiating all the time.
“They wore her as if she were a bride,” said Abu al-Kass. The woman delighted and applauded, he added, and sent magnetic prayers after her two rescuers.
The photographer: Raed El-Sharif
Raed, 25, loved taking photos. The idiots, the seriousness, the relaxed, the posed.
And he hoped that day the world would see his images and that he could transmit the suffering of his people through his work.
He began to volunteer with the PRCs in 2018, at the age of 18, during the great walk of the return demonstrations.
Israel killed 214 demonstrators, including 46 children, during these demonstrations, and injured 36,100, including nearly 8,800 children.
The youngest in five brothers and sisters, Raed was not yet married, although his family hoped that he could get married after the war. But that didn’t happen.
Raed’s father recounts a heartbreaking expectation of nine days to discover what happened to his youngest child, fighting to retain the certainty that he had been executed with his colleagues.
The good grandson: Refaat Radwan
Refaat, twenty-four, was a sweet soul, said Abu al-Kass in Al Jazeera.
“He particularly sure to help any elderly woman he met. If he saw such a woman queuing to recover her medications in the hospital pharmacy, he would ask her to sit down and get medication for her.
“It was as if he had sought the prayers that these sweet women would say for him when he helped them. He would bring them what they needed, so would make them danger so tenderly that anyone looked would think that she was her grandmother. ”
The daring: Saleh Muammar
Saleh, 42, liked to help. On this, everyone agrees.
His brother Hussein told Al Jazeera that Saleh also loved his work, rushing as soon as he recovered from surgery in 2024.
Last February, Hussein said Saleh had been on a mission to help the wounded when Israeli forces had opened fire on doctors, although they were informed that they would be there.
Saleh was seriously injured in the shoulder and chest, and ended up having to spend time in the hospital for surgery and recovery, after which he returned directly to work.
It was his bravery, commented Abu al-Kass. “He was devoted to helping and said that wherever people were crying for help, that’s where we should be, to answer them.”
Missing – The Child Whisperer: Assaad al -Nassasra
Assaad has always shown endless patience for negotiations with children, said Abu al-Kass.
Whenever he saw children playing in the street, he went to Wheeling and Trawing, offering them candies to leave the road and go to play in a safe place.
The children quickly understood it, however, and would play on the street again the next time, laughing and saying: “We were wrong!”
But Assaad did not care and kept putting sweets.
His body was not among those found when an international mission went to seek missing emergencies.
He was captured, linked and removed, according to the one who survived, Munther Abed.
The father of six 47 -year -olds spoke for the last time to his family the evening he disappeared, telling them that he was on his way to the siege of PRCS to have Iftar with his colleagues, according to his son Mohamed.
When they tried to call him around Suhoor Time, he did not respond, and they discovered the seat that no one could reach him or the other emergency workers.
He had always warned his family that each time he was heading for a mission, he may not come back, said his son. But while Assad continued her life -rescue work for the PRCs, they had always tried to avoid thinking about it.
