Israeli rights organisation calls medic shooting probe ‘another cover-up’
The Israeli antioccupation group Breaking the Silence says Israel’s investigation into the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza is “riddled with contradictions, vague phrasing, and selective details”.
“We all remember when the [Israeli military] claimed that the ambulances emergency lights weren’t on – and then we saw the footage proving otherwise. Not every lie has a video to expose it, but this report doesn’t even attempt to engage with the truth,” the group said in a social media post. “Another day, another cover-up. More innocent lives taken, with no accountability.”
Israel sees probe into killing of Palestinian medics as ‘proof of moral superiority’, says analyst
Israel’s public is welcoming an inquiry into the killing of 15 medics and aid workers in Gaza on March 23 as more proof of its “moral superiority”, Israeli analyst Ori Goldberg has said.
Israelis believe that, unlike other nations, “we investigate our own, our people pay the consequences for their actions”, Goldberg said, adding that this view was “at best a lie and at worse a great conspiracy”.
“While individual faults were found, the commission of inquiry ultimately found that the soldiers responded in an appropriate fashion,” he continued. “The whole world knows that this is a lie.”
Goldberg added, however, that he was encouraged by the fact that Israel had decided to conduct a probe into the incident, which suggested it was “beginning to realise the value of at least appearing to uphold … the claim that its legal system investigates the behaviour of Israeli forces”.
Ben-Gvir says deputy commander should be reinstated after Gaza medics killings probe
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has weighed in on the Israeli military’s probe of the March killing of 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers in Gaza.
Ben-Gvir criticised the military’s decision to dismiss a deputy commander for the killings, one of the few repercussions for the attacks, which were otherwise labelled an “error”, despite evidence that medics had their hands tied together before being shot, and were buried along with the ambulances and other vehicles they were travelling in.
Ben-Gvir said the decision was a “grave mistake” and called on the decision to be reversed.
“”Our combat soldiers, who are sacrificing their lives in Gaza, deserve our full support,” Ben-Gvir said.
Earlier on Sunday, the minister, who is responsible for Israel’s police force, said he would promote officers who fired on “terrorists”.
“If there were once stutters in the minister’s office when a police officer was forced to defend his life and kill a criminal who shot him, today there are no stutters – there is complete support,” Ben-Gvir said.
There have been many instances where Israeli police forces have killed people in cases of mistaken identity, such as in November 2023, when an Israeli civilian, Yuval Castleman, was shot and killed after he had stopped an attack, and May 2020, when an unarmed autistic Palestinian man, Eyad al-Hallaq, was killed by Israeli police.
