Recording reveals details about IDF arrest of Gaza paramedic after aid attack

Asaad Al Nsasrah kissed his father's hands as they reunited in their family's tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, relieved to be together again after he was detained for over five weeks in Israeli custody.

"It's okay dad, I'm here," he said, gripping his ageing father's shoulders and adding: "I came back to you. It's okay." Mr Nsasrah was one of the two Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics who survived an attack by Israeli forces on 23 March, which killed 15 emergency workers.

His friends and family members thought they may never see him again. For three weeks after the incident, no one knew if the paramedic was dead or alive.

It was only on 13 April that the PRCS announced they had discovered he was in an Israeli detention centre. He's been released, but Mr Nsasrah has not yet spoken publicly about the attack on the aid convoy, or about his time in the Israeli prison.

But clues are beginning to emerge about what exactly happened to him, and why he was detained for so long - including a new video recording that Sky News has obtained of a call that he made to the PRCS dispatch centre during the attack. This adds to the body of visual and audio evidence that we are collating about what exactly happened that morning.

The IDF told Sky News that he was arrested based on their intelligence that indicated his involvement in terrorist activity. "During his detention, he was questioned and held under a temporary custody order.

At the conclusion of the questioning, and based on the information gathered, it was decided not to issue a permanent detention order, and he was released," the spokesperson said in an email, adding that: "The IDF operates in accordance with the law." The timeline we have pieced together shows the attack begins at 5.08am, and gunfire can be heard for more than five minutes, during which time over 100 shots were fired. Call made during attack The new video recording we obtained shows that Mr Nsasrah made a call to his colleagues at the dispatch centre after the attack had started.

Based on information visible on the screen, the call began at 6.55am, while the video begins at 7.03am and ends at 7.07am. At the start of the clip, we hear multiple voices talking calmly in Hebrew.

By this point, given the proximity of the voices to the microphone, it's clear Mr Nsasrah is not in hiding but has been apprehended by the Israeli soldiers. After a short while, a soldier shouts in Hebrew: "Come!" "Leave them here together," a soldier says.

A soldier speaks Arabic, presumably to the prisoners. "Shut up, shut up!.