from Daily Sabah
Gaza’s civil defense agency on Monday rejected an Israeli army probe and accused Israeli forces of executing 15 rescue workers last month in what it described as "summary killings."
The medics and other rescue workers were killed when responding to distress calls near Gaza's southern city of Rafah early on March 23, days into Israel's renewed offensive in the Palestinian territory.
Among those killed were eight Red Crescent staff members, six from the Gaza civil defense rescue agency and one employee of UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA and Palestinian rescuers...
An Israeli military investigation into the incident released Sunday "found no evidence to support claims of execution" or "indiscriminate fire" by its troops, but admitted to operational failures and said it was firing a field commander.
It claimed six of those killed were resistance members, revising an earlier claim that nine of the men were members of different armed groups...
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