While the Israeli army said that it “regrets the damage caused to undefined civilians”, he argued that his soldiers were carrying out a “vital mission” targeting Hamas terrorists and Hamas uses medical and humanitarian infrastructure “for terrorism, in particular by using ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons.
The report indicates that “in general”, there was no attempt to conceal the event, despite the recognition of the soldiers buried the bodies and crushed the ambulances, saying that making the latter “was false”.
The soldiers first claimed that the soldiers opened fire on vehicles without lights or markings approaching in the dark. But after a video recovered from the mobile phone from one of the people killed, showing ambulances clearly marked with their light lights, the army has changed its account.
In its last accounts of the event, the Israeli army said that the troops opened fire to “suspects” emerging from a fire truck and ambulances “after having perceived an immediate and tangible threat”.
The vehicles approaching quickly, the assistant commander evaluated the vehicles employed by the forces of Hamas and the order to open fire.
“Due to poor night visibility, the assistant commander did not initially recognize vehicles as ambulances,” said the report, “it was not until later, after approaching the vehicles and having scanned them, he discovered that they were indeed rescue teams.”
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