On March 23, 2025, in the predawn darkness of Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, Israeli soldiers killed 15 Palestinian aid workers — eight medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six members of Palestinian Civil Defense, and one UNRWA staff member. Their vehicles were clearly marked. Their emergency lights were on. There was no exchange of fire.

A year later, a joint investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture has reconstructed what happened — bullet by bullet, minute by minute. The findings are damning. Israeli soldiers fired at least 910 documented gunshots over more than two hours. At least eight shots were fired at point-blank range. At least one aid worker was executed from as close as one meter away.

“The soldiers could clearly see the aid workers, shot at them continuously and deliberately from this position, and then approached to execute them one by one at close range,” Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of research at Forensic Architecture, said. “Locating the massacre within the evolution of Israel’s campaign in Gaza shows that it was not an isolated incident but part of the genocide.”

The full report, presented at the British Parliament in Westminster on February 24, also documents what happened after the killing: Israeli forces crushed the vehicles with heavy machinery, buried the bodies in a mass grave, and then — in one of the more grotesque details — allowed the site to be repurposed as a food distribution point, where Palestinians were later shot trying to access aid.

Israel’s internal military inquiry, launched in April 2025, acknowledged what it called “professional failures” but recommended no criminal charges. No soldier has faced consequences. The United States, which has provided billions in military support to Israel since October 2023, has not demanded accountability for a single one of the hundreds of aid workers killed.

The report was formally presented at Westminster. The crime scene is now being paved over as part of the US-backed “Board of Peace” plan to build what officials are calling “New Rafah.” Without accountability, it will be a monument to impunity built on a mass grave.