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Israel killed Gaza aid workers in ‘execution style’ Tel al Sultan massacre in 2025: Report

Tuesday, 24 February 2026 9:07 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 24 February 2026 10:54 AM ]

The position of each ambulance as the shooting began. (Forensic Architecture, 2026)

Nearly a thousand bullets were fired by the Israeli soldiers in an “execution style” massacre that killed fifteen Palestinian aid workers on March 23, 2025, at Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, with some killed at point-blank range, according to a recently published report.

Independent research groups Earshot and Forensic Architecture have released a detailed report based on eyewitness testimony and audio and visual analysis that several aid workers were executed and that at least one was shot from as close as one meter away.

Describing it as “one of the darkest moments” of the war by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), this massacre killed eight of its aid workers, another six from Palestinian Civil Defense, and a UN relief agency staffer.

Triggering international condemnation, the report reconstructs, minute by minute, how the massacre unfolded.

Using video and audio recordings from the incident, open-source images and videos, satellite imagery, social media posts, and other materials, as well as in-depth interviews with two survivors of the attack, the groups were able to digitally reconstruct the scene and events surrounding the massacre.

According to the findings of the report, at least 93% of the gunshots recorded in the first minutes of the attack were fired directly towards the emergency vehicles and aid workers by Israeli soldiers. During this time, at least five shooters fired simultaneously.

Witness testimonies suggest as many as 30 soldiers were present in the area.

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Upon reaching the aid workers, the soldiers moved between them and the vehicles and executed some of the aid workers at point-blank range.

The report further stated that Israeli military personnel acted intentionally to conceal and disrupt evidence of the attack by various methods.

Burying the bodies of the victims, burying the mobile phones of at least one of the victims, crushing and partially burying the victims’ vehicles, and transforming the site with earth-moving vehicles in the hours immediately following the attack were some of the findings mentioned in the report.

The body of Anwar al-Attar was found near the ambush site on March 27, and the bodies of the other 14 aid workers, all wearing identifying uniforms or volunteer vests of their respective organizations, were found in a mass grave near the site on March 30.

The area surrounding the incident site was further transformed by the Israeli military’s construction of the “Morag Corridor” security zone and the erection of an aid distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where, not long after, people were again killed trying to access food.

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