Israel reflected its initial version about the death 15 Palestinian rescuers near Rafah On March 23, after a video of one of the dead workers’ phones was recovered, it appears to be contrary to their copies of the events. Officer Israeli Defense Forces (FDI)Who spoke provided that his identity was not disclosed, he admitted that his original statement that emergency cars had continued “Darbingly” and “without signs or signs of emergency” It was not true.
The photos showing the attack, joint for the first time by “New York Times”, show that All vehicles have headlights Emergency signals, which means that their slogans were clearly clear. The video also shows that emergency car employees did not shoot at any time.
Los Blessed attacks against the human and medical staff Who carries slogans recognized in the Geneva Convention -including the Red Crescent – It constitutes the crime of warUnless they commit “harmful acts of enemy.”
Blessed attacks against medical and humanitarian employees
Before the photos appeared during the weekend, he told the direct foreign investment source “Euronws” that the vehicles that were subject to the shots that were transferred The terrorists belong to HamasIndeed, Islamic JihadWhich made them “legitimate goals”.
The IDF said that up to nine terrorists had been eliminated as part of the attack, and this Six out of 15 Palestinian doctors The dead were Hamas operations, but they did not provide any evidence of this statement. The bodies of the 15 workers -eight workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent (MLRP), one of the Palestinian civil defense directed by Hamas and United Nations employeeThey were recovered by the United Nations hole at the end of March with their cars. The Palestinian Red Crescent doctor is still missing.
he Comparative analysis From “Eurono” from MLRP photos that claim to show the attack and the United Nations pictures of the burial place, two identical concrete structures show, indicating that the bodies were buried near the attack or at the scene of the attack. Europerify Breakd what we know about the facts:
March 23: FDis open fire against emergency vehicles
About 03:50 local time on March 23, MLRP sent an ambulance to serve the injured In the Hohish neighborhood in Rafah, which was reached by Israeli air attacks.
In the same morning, The Israeli Defense Army ordered the evacuation From the nearby neighborhood like them and ordered the residents to go on foot towards the Maasi area, the designated humanitarian area, along the Gaza coast. Israel described the “dangerous fighting zone” area and banned vehicles.
MLRP provides for this Ambulance car It was sent to come to the wound “It was filmed by the Israeli forces”Harming the medical team. After that, he sent three other ambulances to attend both the injured and the medical workers who were attacked.
In total, ten Red Crescent workers were sent between ambulance staff and First aid volunteers. I lost all contacts with them, but one of the agents, Monzer Abed, was released by Israeli forces on the same night. Later, and The bodies of eight nine doctors Among the remaining MLRP, while one of the paramedics, the Assad of Nasasra is still missing.
Monzer Abed Associated Press (AP) announced that the Israeli forces had taken to Nasasra with the eyes of dressings. In addition to the eight MLRP workers, they died Six employees from the Palestinian Civil DefenseThe Hamas, which was walking in a fire truck, as well as a United Nations employee at the United Nations Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which, according to the United Nations, later reached the scene of the events in a vehicle with a mark.
March 27: The United Nations agrees for the first time the burial and recovery of a corpse
On March 27, the United Nations Humanitarian Office, Osha, was able to reach the place where the bodies of doctors were buried in the Tel Kanan neighborhood. I found Ocha Five ambulances, fire trucks and United Nations “Partially crushed and buried” in the sand in what he described as a “common grave.”
The body of the civil defense worker was recovered from under a fire truck. According to the Palestinian red, it was the Israeli authorities All coordination attempts refused One of the international organizations to facilitate the arrival of the rescue team to the place.
However, a representative of foreign direct investment, “EURONEWS Coordination of evacuation of the bodies“.
March 29: The foreign direct investment claims that Hamas and Islamic jihad agents died
Live foreign investment They confessed to open fire Against emergency vehicles six days after the attack. In a statement to the news agency to AFP on March 29, he said that the Israeli forces “opened fire Against Hamas vehicles Y Many terrorists abolished Hamas. After a few minutes, other vehicles advanced suspiciously towards the forces. “
“The forces responded Shooting to suspicious vehiclesEliminate many terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. After the initial investigation, it was determined that some suspicious vehicles (…) were ambulances and fire trucks, “the statement continued.
March 30: The United Nations recover 14 other bodies
March 30, The United Nations Humanitarian Team He returned to the burial place and regained the remaining 14 bodies. “Its vehicles, their ambulances, the United Nations vehicles and civil defense vehicles are crushed and dumped, covered with sand,” said Jonathan Whital, president of Usha in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“It is absolute horror what happened here. This should never happen. Health staff should not be target. “
The Civil Defense Agency announced by Hamas that some of the convoy members have been found “Burn with hands and feet” And with gunshots and chest, which indicates that they were “It was implemented at a close distance”.
The Secretary -General of the International Red Cross Federation (FICR), Jagan Chaphanin, said, “They have slogans that you should protect; Ambulances have been marked. “
after The bodies recovery on March 30International Foreign Investment Spokesman, Nadaf Shoshani, Advertise in the social network x This “has been identified by many non -coordinated vehicles that have advanced suspiciously towards foreign direct investment forces without headlights or emergency marks.”
March 5: MLRP publishes photos recorded on mobile phones
After MLRP common photos of The video has been recovered from the mobile phone Among the dead paramedics, where vehicles were clearly seen with the emergency signs, the Israeli army realized that its initial copy of the facts was “not correct.”
He also said that six 15 dead rescuers were Hamas operationsBut no evidence of this statement contributed. “Euronews” asked the IDF to provide more details about this statement, but speaking and refused to comment.
Tests indicate a possible war crime
Jeffrey Nice, a British lawyer who specializes in human rights that carried out the genocide in the past, said, “Euronews”, although she was not “completely confirmed”, the testimonies and documents that appeared “appear” Overwhelming tests It was committed against cooperation, and in fact, from the cover. “
This is despite the Israeli statement that the vehicles that were transferred to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. “Even if there is, let’s say, an individual suspected of Hamas in a group of human workers The principle of justification From the Israeli Defense Forces, “Nice added.
Regarding whether an independent investigation could be conducted in their death, lawyer Jeffrey Nice “Euroneus” announced: “Although the United Nations has managed to reach this specified place, and the discovery of bodies and car in the sand, they cannot reach the justifications documented by the Israeli Defense Forces, and Foreign investment may not do this public information“.
“What they really need to investigate is the intention of orders or tests Command structure From the Israeli Defense Forces. “The Israeli Defense Army says the event” is being investigated “by the southern leadership of the Israeli army.
“All phrases will be examined, including documents taking place in the accident Understanding the series of facts He said in a joint statement with “Eurono”.