Israeli military admits that “professional failures” at the murder of 15 doctors in the gas

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The Israeli military has confessed to “professional failures” and said he would release the officer after the incident in which her forces killed 15 unarmed ambulance workers in South Gaza last month.

Israeli forces shot paramedics and first relies in the first hours of March 23, before breaking the ambulance, a fire truck and a UN vehicle in which they were driving. Then they buried the dead in a shallow grave.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society – for which eight dead worked – described the killings as “massacre”. Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the incident caused “further concern about the commitment of war crimes.”

The Israeli military said on Sunday that his investigation had revealed “several professional failures, violations and failure to fulfill the full”.

But this refused to cover it, and stated that the troops had not fired indiscriminately and did not shoot any of the dead, except for the Red Crescent paramedics, the victims included six members of the Gaza Staff and one UN employee.

The Israeli defense forces had to change several elements of its accounting after the details that contradicted its earlier versions appeared.

Initially, IDF claimed that his soldiers fired on the convoy because he was moving “suspicious to (Israeli) troops” and “without pre -coordination and without headlights.”

However he admitted that this statement was inaccurate after the recovered frames from mobile phone One of the deceased paramedics showed that ambulances and a fire truck were clearly marked, and when they hit the fire, there were lights and emergency signals.

On Sunday, IDF said the commander would be withdrawn and the deputy commander will be fired.

Major-General Joab Har-air, who conducted the investigation, said that part of the reason, the reason for the deputy commander was fired, was “mistakes” in his murder.

IDF said the murder occurred in three cases in a few hours. For the first time, the troops opened fire by ambulance, they mistaken as a Hamas vehicle. Then they fired an ambulance and a fire truck that arrived to find people who died in the first incident. Finally, they fired at a UN vehicle that arrived at the scene.

“The examination determined that the fire in the first two incidents occurred as a result of an operational misunderstanding of the troops, which thought they had faced a tangible threat from the enemy forces. The third incident provided violation of orders during the fighting,” the military said.

Har-Navat confirmed that none of the killed people was armed and that no weapons were found.

However, the military again claimed without providing evidence confirming his statement that six victims were Hamas militants. He called none of them.

He previously claimed that the militant called Mohammad Shubaki was killed in the incident before giving up the requirement after it became clear that he was not among the dead.

A spokesman said the inaccurate claim was based on the erroneous identification by operative flights, which were corrected by higher officials.

Last week, the Red Crescent stated that the attack was carried out in Israeli care. On Sunday, the military confirmed that this was the case but did not provide more information.

Israeli offensive in Gas According to Palestinian officials, more than 51,000 people have yet been killed and a humanitarian crisis has been created.

According to Israeli officials, Israel launched an offensive in response to Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, during which 1200 militants died and took 250 hostages.