Israel's army has admitted its soldiers made mistakes over the killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. The convoy of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances, a UN car and a fire truck from Gaza's Civil Defence came under fire near Rafah. An IDF official briefed journalists on Saturday evening, saying the soldiers had earlier fired on a car containing three Hamas members easily identifiable by the red moons emblazoned on their white uniforms.
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| Pilot Officer Frank Spencer |
Pilot Officer Frank Spencer said that: "From our buzzing drones we could see that when the ambulances stopped beside the Hamas car they were making strange noises like ne-nar ne-nar and attempting to blind us with flashing lights. It was harassment. They also wore high visibility clothing which was very distracting to look at. As I said to Betty, this is very suspicious behavior. Naturally the soldiers assumed they were under threat and opened fire which was a bit of a whoopsie."
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| Captain Alberto Bertorelli (seconded to the IDF) |
Later Captain Alberto Bertorelli has admitted his earlier account claiming the vehicles approached without lights was inaccurate, attributing the report to the troops involved. "What a mistaka to makea," he said. "It de fog of war."
"As Major Hitchcock say, my troops they absolute shower! But they do their best to make a right their mistaka. They bury the bodies of the 15 dead workers in de sand to protect them from wild animal and not as the Hamasa sayas to covera upa de war crimea.
Also nonea of the medics wasa handcuffed before they died, they just had a lota of de bangles on. And they was not executed at a close range, my men very good shot. I mean, bad shots. They maka lot of mistaka."
The Red Crescent are calling for an independent investigation but although BBC Verify analysed the video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics, it's correspondent Mr William Joyce couldn't bring himself to write a headline despite all the footage being recorded on camera-phones recovered from the dead. The footage continues for more than five minutes, with the paramedic, named as Refat Radwan, heard saying his last prayers before the voices of Israeli soldiers are heard approaching the vehicles but the BBC still cannot say what happened despite viewing the evidence multiple times because they are not antisemitic.
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| Major Hitchock of the IDF |
The Red Crescent are calling for an independent investigation but although BBC Verify analysed the video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics, it's correspondent Mr William Joyce couldn't bring himself to write a headline despite all the footage being recorded on camera-phones recovered from the dead. The footage continues for more than five minutes, with the paramedic, named as Refat Radwan, heard saying his last prayers before the voices of Israeli soldiers are heard approaching the vehicles but the BBC still cannot say what happened despite viewing the evidence multiple times because they are not antisemitic.
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