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The Israeli army admitted “professional failures” and said that it would fail an officer, after an incident whose forces killed 15 unarmed emergencies in southern Gaza last month.

The Israeli forces shot the paramedics and the first respondents in the early hours of March 23, before the ambulances, the fire truck and the United Nations were crushed. Then they buried the dead in a shallow tomb.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Association – who worked eight of the dead – described the killings as a “massacre”. Volcker Turk, the United Nations High Human Rights Commissioner, said the incident raised “other concerns about war crimes by the Israeli army.”

The Israeli army said on Sunday that its investigation had determined “many professional failures, violations of orders, and failed to report fully” what happened.

But she denied an attempt to cover up, and said that the forces did not shoot randomly or executed any of the dead, as well as the red crescent paramedics, and among the victims was six members of the Civil Defense in Gaza and one worker for the United Nations.

The Israeli Defense Forces had to change multiple elements from their account of what happened after the details of the details contradicting their previous releases.

The IDF initially claimed that its soldiers shot the convoy because it was moving “suspiciously [Israeli] The forces “and” without prior coordination and without headlights or emergency signals.

However, he admitted that this claim is inaccurate after recovering from footage Mobile phone Among the dead paramedics showed that ambulances and the fire engines were clearly distinguished, and when they were shot, their lights and emergency signals were on them.

The Israeli Defense Army said on Sunday that an officer of a commander will be reprimanded, while the deputy commander will be rejected.

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The IDF said that the killings had occurred in three incidents within a few hours. First, the forces opened fire on an ambulance that they had known as Hamas. Then they shot a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck that came to find the people who were killed in the first accident. Finally, they shot the United Nations vehicle that arrived at the scene.

The army said: “The examination decided that the fire in the first two incidents resulted from a misunderstanding by the forces, who believed that they faced a tangible threat from the enemy forces. The third accident involves a breach of orders during a combat environment.”

Har confirmed that no people were killing gunmen and that no weapons were found.

However, the army claimed again, without providing evidence to support its claim, that six of the victims were Hamas militants. None of them was called.

He previously claimed that one of the militants, Muhammad Shobaki, was killed in the accident, before he had to drop this claim after it became clear that he was not among the dead.

An official said that the inaccurate claim is based on the definition of a wrong identity by the field speech agents who were corrected by senior officials.

The Red Crescent said last week that the paramedic, who survived the attack, was being held in the Israeli reservation. On Sunday, the army confirmed that this is the case, but it did not provide more details.

The Israeli attack in Gaza More than 51,000 people have been killed so far, according to Palestinian officials, in addition to creating a humanitarian crisis.

Israel launched the attack in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, as the militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took 250 hostages.