New developments have been revealed in the murder of 15 Palestinian doctors and rescuers by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip last month, with proofs contradicting the claim of Israeli defense forces that soldiers did not draw from medical workers.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that his analysis of FDI’s own materials collected as part of an internal investigation into the incident contradicted the assertion of the army that the soldiers did not draw without discrimination in the Palestinian ambulances and a firefighters in the early hours of March 23.
Instead, said Haaretz, soldiers continuously pulled over vehicles for three and a half minutes at close range despite the attempts by humanitarian workers to identify.
The family of Assad al-Asasrah, one of the two survivors of the attack, filed a request on Wednesday with the High Court of Israel, asking for details on their detention in Israel. The Israeli authorities confirmed last week that Nsasrah was in detention, but under the legislation on the emergency war, the place where Gaza prisoners can be kept secret and they can be prohibited from meeting a lawyer for 45 days. Nsasrah has no legal advisor’s authorization before May 7.
In new Israeli policies Thursday, the Supreme Court granted Benjamin Netanyahu an extension until Sunday to file an official refutation to an affidavit of his head of Bet Shin Bet, Ronen Bar.
The Israeli Prime Minister was to accuse the head of the General Security Service of Lies, in an affidavit which was to be submitted by the end of Thursday in response to complaints made by the Head of Security in his own affidavit of 31 pages earlier this week.
The Supreme Court of Israel interrupted the controversial dismissal of Bar after a vote of the cabinet last month, generalized demonstrations and a petition by the Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, on the grounds that it can be illegal. The battle between the two men pushes the country on the verge of a constitutional crisis.
The Shin Bet has investigated Netanyahu’s aid for alleged national security violations, including the flight of classified documents to foreign media, and allegedly taken money in Qatar, which is known for having granted significant financial aid to Hamas.
In his affidavit, Bar accused Netanyahu of moving to dismiss him after his refusal to respond to requests, in particular the espionage of anti-government demonstrators and of helping the first to postpone his testimony in his criminal trial. Bar also said that it had been clear to him that he should be “personally faithful” to the Prime Minister.
Netanyahu said he had lost his confidence in Bar’s ability to direct the bet of Tibia. He intensified his attack on Bar on Wednesday evening, before his scheduled deposit, sharing a recording of a telephone conversation between a Tibia betting agent and a policeman would have proven that the agency “persecutes the right -wing activists”.
The relationship between the two men, already tense, has deteriorated again after the release of a Shin Bet investigation pointing towards political problems as the attack on October 7, 2023 approaches.
Netanyahu has never accepted the responsibility of the worst national security catastrophe of Israel, which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, led to 251 kidnapped and held hostage in the Gaza Strip and ignited the devastating war in Palestinian territory.
The head of the powerful Histadrut Union of Israel, Arnon Bar-David, threatened Thursday to call a national strike if the government disobeyed a potential prescription from the High Court to restore the bar, describing such a decision as a “red line”.
Two previous strikes from Histadrut put the far right coalition of Netanyahu under significant pressure. One in March 2023 was launched by the Prime Minister’s decision to dismiss the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, on his opposition to a proposal for a legal overhaul. An action in September 2024 took place in favor of a hostage and cease-fire agreement in the war in Gaza after Hamas murdered six captives.
Wednesday in Gaza, Israeli air strikes across the band killed at least 28 people, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory, whose data that the UN assesses to be exact.
