Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ in killing of 15 medics in Gaza

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The Israeli Armed Forces admitted to “professional failures” and said that it would become an officer, when his forces killed 15 unarmed emergency workers in the south of Gaza last month.

During the first hours of March 23, the Israeli forces shot dead paramedics and first respondents before the ambulance, the fire truck and the United Nations were traveling. After that, they buried the dead with a shallow grave.

The Red Crescent Society of Palestine, who worked for eight of the dead, described the murders as a “massacre”. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that the incident raised the further concerns about the Israeli Military War crime committee. “

Israeli troops announced on Sunday that his investigation has discovered “several professional failures, violations and full reports.” What happened?

But he denied it, the attempt to cover it and said that the troops did not shoot or did any of the dead, but the victims included six Gaza civil defense members.

The Israeli defense forces have had to change the multiple elements of its account, what happened after the details, contradicting it earlier.

IDF originally insisted that his soldiers were fired on the squad because it moved “suspiciously to the [Israeli] Troops “and” without prior coordinating and without headlights or emergency signals. “

However, it confessed that this claim was inaccurate after the shots were restored Mobile phone: One of the dead paramedics showed that ambulance cars and firefighters were clearly mentioned, and when they appeared on fire, their lights and emergencies had the signals.

On Sunday, IDF said that the commander’s responsible was as the deputy commander be released.

Major General Hovar Harthely, who held the investigation, said the deputy commander rejected “mistakes” at his expense.

IDF said the killings took place within a few hours within three incidents. First, the troops opened fire with an ambulance that they were mistaken as a car. Then they fired ambulances and a fire truck that came to find those killed in the first case. Finally, they fired by the UN vehicle arriving at the scene.

“The investigation decided that the fire at the first two incidents led to the operational misunderstandings that they believed that they would face orders by enemy forces,” said the military.

He confirmed that none of the victims were armed and that there was no weapons.

However, the armed forces are again supposed to support his claim without providing evidence that six of the victims were Hamas militants. It was not one of them.

He used to claim that Mohammad Shubak was killed in the incident, who was killed in this statement, became clear that he was not in the dead.

The official said that the inaccurate lawsuit is based on the wrong identification by field-intelligence operators, which have been corrected by higher high-ranking officials.

The red crescent said last week that the paramedic was held in the congregation of Israel who survived the attack. Military officers confirmed that it was the case on Sunday, but did not provide further details.

Israeli attacking activities Gaza So far, more than 51,000 people have killed, according to Palestinian officials, as well as a humanitarian crisis.

During Israeli officials, Israel’s officials have launched offensive activities in response to Hamas’s attack on October 7, during which militants killed 1,200 people.