The teams do not appear to be acting unusually or in a threatening manner as three medics emerge and head toward the stricken ambulance.

A shot rings out and one of the men appears to fall. Gunfire erupts.

The man holding the phone appears to scramble out of the car and onto the ground, but the screen goes black, though the audio continues.

The intense shooting persists for almost five and a half minutes, characterized by prolonged, heavy volleys followed by periods of silence interrupted by isolated shots, cries, and screams.

Throughout the ordeal, a man repeats the phrase, “There is no God but God and Muhammad is God’s prophet,” a declaration of faith Muslims make in the face of death. Towards the conclusion of the six-minute, 40-second video, Hebrew voices are heard. “The Jews are coming,” the man mentions, alluding to Israeli soldiers, before the recording ends abruptly.

The Israeli military official asserted there was “no mistreatment,” and said he didn’t know why the vehicles had been buried. He had no information about the medic who remained missing.

Israel claims they found militants afterward

The Israeli military says that after the shooting, troops determined they had killed a Hamas figure named Mohammed Amin Shobaki and eight other militants. However, none of the 15 slain medics has that name, and no other bodies are known to have been found at the site.

The military has not said what happened to Shobaki’s body or released the names of the other alleged militants. The Israeli military official said Israel was “working to bring evidence” that Hamas operatives were killed.

Jonathan Whittall, interim head in Gaza of the UN humanitarian office OCHA, dismissed allegations that the slain medics were Hamas militants, saying staff had worked with the same medics previously in evacuating patients from hospitals and other tasks.

“These are paramedic crews that I personally have met before,” he said. “They were buried in their uniforms with their gloves on. They were ready to save lives.”