The Israeli military has released details of an investigation into its own killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and aid workers in Gaza last month, saying its code of ethics was not violated and only one soldier is dismissed, in an attack that sparked outrage in the international community.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Israeli rights organization Breaking the Silence rejected the findings of the Israeli probe.
PRCS’s president told Al-Araby TV that the Israeli narrative on the killings in Rafah was “contradictory”.
“It is incomprehensible why the occupation soldiers buried the bodies of the paramedics in a criminal manner,” Younis al-Khatib said.
Al-Khatib added that the Israeli army communicated with the paramedics before killing them and that the evidence – including a video showing their ambulances flashing emergency lights – proved “the falsity of the occupation’s narrative regarding the limited visibility at the site”.
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