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The Israeli military has acknowledged the “professional failure” and says it will dismiss an officer, after an incident where its forces killed five unarmed emergency workers in southern Gaza last month.
Israeli forces shot paramedics and first responses early March 27, before the ambulance, fire truck and the United Nations cars were traveled where they were traveling. Then they buried the dead in a shallow grave.
Palestine Red Crescent Society – for which eight of the dead did – described the murder as a “genocide”. UN High Commissioner to Human Rights Bholkar Turk says the incident has expressed concern over the war crimes commission by the Israeli military “.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that the investigation identified “several professional failures, violations of orders and failure to fully report” which happened.
However, Cover has denied the attempt and said that soldiers were not dismissed indiscriminately or did not execute the dead, in addition to the Red Crescent paramedics, the victims include six members of the Gaza Civil Defense and a UN worker.
The Israeli Defense Force had to change multiple elements of what happened after the details were released after its previous versions were opposed to its previous versions.
IDF initially claimed that its soldiers fired at the caravan because it was “suspiciously” moving forward [Israeli] Soldiers “and” without pre -adjustment and without headlights or emergency signals “.
However, it acknowledged that this claim was wrong after the footage was rescued Mobile phone One of the dead paramedics was shown that the ambulance and fire engine was clearly identified and when they were on fire, they had light and urgent signals.
The IDF said on Sunday that a commanding officer would be reprimanded, while a deputy commander would be dismissed.
Major-General EoAv Har-Yon, conducting the investigation, said that a section of the cause of the departure of the deputy commander was “wrong” in the murder.
The IDF said the killings took place in three incidents in a few hours. First, the soldiers opened fire on an ambulance that they misinterpreted as Hamas’ car. Then they fired at a caravan of ambulance and a fire truck that came to find the people killed in the first incident. Finally, they opened fire in a UN car at the scene.
“The test has determined that the first two events were the result of an operational misunderstanding as a result of the fire of the first two events, who believed that they were facing a clear threat from enemy forces.
Har-Eion confirmed that none of the killed people were armed and no weapons were found.
However, the military again complained that there were six Hamas militants among the victims, without proof of supporting its claim. It didn’t name any of them.
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An officer said that the wrong claim was based on a misinterpretation identification by field-intellectual staff that was amended by more senior officers.
Red Crescent said last week that a paramedic Israeli custody of the attack was held in Israeli custody. The army confirmed on Sunday that it was, but did not provide more details.
Israeli offensive Gaza According to Palestinian officials, more than 5 people have been killed so far, as well as humanitarian crisis.
Israel Hamas October, October 21, made the offensive in response to the attack on October 21, at which time militants killed 1,220 people, according to Israeli officials and took 20 people hostage.
