OPENED FIRE
The navy official mentioned preliminary findings from the investigation confirmed troops had opened hearth on a car at round 4am (10am, Singapore time), killing two members of the Hamas inner safety forces, and taking one other prisoner, who the official mentioned had admitted underneath interrogation to being in Hamas.
As time handed, a number of automobiles handed alongside the highway till, at round 6am (12pm, Singapore time), he mentioned troops obtained phrase from aerial surveillance {that a} suspicious group of automobiles was approaching.
“They really feel that is one other incident like what occurred at 4am and so they opened hearth,” the official mentioned.
He mentioned aerial surveillance footage confirmed the troops have been at a ways once they opened hearth, and he denied studies that the troops handcuffed at the very least a few of the paramedics and shot them at shut vary.
“It is not from shut. They opened hearth from afar,” he mentioned. “There is not any mistreatment of the individuals there.”
He mentioned the troopers had approached the group that they had shot, figuring out at the very least a few of them as militants. Nonetheless he didn’t clarify what proof had prompted the evaluation.
“And of their eyes that they had an encounter with terrorists, that could be a profitable encounter with terrorists.”
He mentioned the troops had knowledgeable the UN of the incident on the identical day and initially coated the our bodies with camouflage netting till they may very well be recovered. UN officers didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
“There was no incident the place the IDF tried to cowl up. Quite the opposite, they referred to as the UN instantly.”
Later, when the UN didn’t instantly come to take the our bodies, the troopers coated them with sand to cease animals from getting at them, the official mentioned.
He mentioned the automobiles have been pushed out of the best way by a heavy engineering car to clear the highway however he couldn’t clarify why the automobiles have been crushed by the engineering car after which buried.
