The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC) described an Israeli military relationship on a deadly attack on its paramedical paramedics like “full of lies”.
The Israeli army said in its report that “professional failures” had led to the murder of the 15 workers in Gaza. He rejected the assistant commander of the involved unit.
A spokesperson for the PRC said that the report was “invalid” because it “justifies and moves the responsibility of a personal error in the field command when the truth is quite different”.
Fourteen emergency workers and a United Nations worker was killed on March 23 after a convoy of PRC ambulances, a United Nations car and a fire truck were criticized by the Israeli army.
The UN humanitarian leader in Gaza suggested that the investigation was not going far enough. “A lack of real responsibility undermines international law and makes people a more dangerous place,” said Jonathan Whittall.
“Without responsibility, we risk continuing to look at the atrocities take place and the standards designed to protect us all, eroding.”
The Red Crescent and several other international organizations previously called for an independent Incident survey. The Israel Defense Forces Investigation (FDI) was carried out by its fact research mechanism, which it describes as impartial.
The TSAhal report said that the incident occurred in what he called a “hostile and dangerous combat zone”, and that the field commander received an immediate and tangible threat after the vehicles approached quickly.
He blamed the “bad night visibility”, which, according to the FDI, meant that the commander had not identified vehicles as ambulances.
But he later said that the account was “wrong” after a video found on the mobile phone of a doctor who was killed showed the vehicles with their light lights and that their emergency signals flash.
The images show that the vehicles stop on the road when the shooting begins just before dawn.
The video continues for more than five minutes, the paramedical saying that its last prayers before the voices of the Israeli soldiers got along with vehicles.
It also shows that vehicles were clearly marked and that paramedical paramedics carrying a reflective uniform.
The bodies of the 15 dead workers were buried in sand. The report indicates that it was made “to avoid more damage” and that the decision to do “was reasonable in the circumstances”.
They were only found one week after the incident because international agencies, including the UN, could not organize a safe passage in the region or locate the spot.
Journalists invited to an Israeli military briefing on Sunday showed aerial images, shot in the early hours of March 23, which showed the series of three attacks. He also showed that several other vehicles, including an ambulance, spent about time between the first and the second Israeli attack, without being shot.
Israeli officials said it proved that the troops in Gaza did not open fire on medical vehicles unless they feel threatened.
The FDI also confirmed that it had a PRCS doctor whom he had owned following the incident. They did not confirm its name, but the International Committee of the Red Cross previously appointed him Assad al-Nassasra.
Israel launched its campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
At least 51,201 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas in the territory.
