Israel says that his story of rescuers killed in Gaza was partly “wrong”

The Israeli army recognized on Saturday that the first accounts of the troops involved in the murder last month of 15 people in the south of Gaza – who, according to the United Nations, were paramedical paramedics and rescuers – had been partially “wrong”.

The evaluation, shared in a briefing with journalists by an Israeli military official, came the day after a video obtained by the New York Times seems to contradict the previous version of the army events. The manager spoke under the cover of anonymity under army rules.

The Israeli military official said that the internal investigation into the attack, which attracted an international examination and a conviction, is underway.

On Saturday evening, journalists on the initial conclusions of the army, the manager said that the forces of a reserve infantry brigade were lying in an ambush along a road north of the city of Gazan de Rafah in the hours before dawn of March 23 and, at 4 am, had killed what he described as two Hamas security staff and held a third.

Two hours later, while Dawn broke, a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck approached the same place. Israeli forces were still on the ground and received a surveillance aircraft report that the convoy was heading for them, the official said. When the rescuers arrived and left their vehicles, he said, forces thought that more Hamas agents had arrived and opened fire on the occupants of vehicles from afar.

The Israeli army had previously affirmed, on several occasions and wrongly, that the vehicles “advanced with suspicion” towards the troops “without headlights or emergency signals”.