Gaza - Saba:
The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Younis al-Khatib, said that the Zionist enemy's narrative regarding the crime committed by its soldiers targeting ambulance and civil defense crews in Rafah last March is conflicting.
In press statements on Sunday, al-Khatib stressed the need for an independent and impartial investigation by a UN body, noting that the measures taken by the enemy were administrative, "and we do not expect anything more than that."
He stressed that the evidence proves the falsity of the enemy's narrative regarding the limited visibility at the site of the paramedics' killing, adding that "it is incomprehensible why the enemy soldiers criminally buried the paramedics' bodies."
Al-Khatib explained that the enemy soldiers communicated with the paramedics before targeting them, which proves the falsity of the Zionist narrative.
The Israeli army published the results of an investigation into the execution of 15 Palestinian rescue crew members in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah on March 23.
Although the army admitted in a statement that its forces opened fire on rescue crews, the soldiers will not be tried or held accountable. Rather, it was decided to dismiss one officer from military service.
The Israeli army sought to absolve its soldiers of responsibility for this massacre, which eyewitnesses reported afterward that Israeli forces executed Palestinian rescue crew members in Tel Sultan by shooting them in the chest and head before burying them in a mass grave.
In its statement today, the Israeli army claimed that "the incident occurred in a hostile and dangerous combat zone, amid a threat to the forces operating in this area."
The Israeli army claimed that the investigation found no evidence of "the dead being bound before or after the shooting, or evidence of executions."
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