The fifteen collaborators were killed in Rafah, and then the army buried their bodies to hide the crime. At first, after the bodies appeared, the Israel Defense Forces explained that they were terrorists, that they had not identified themselves and that they had ignored them when the soldiers asked them to stop. A video on the mobile of one of the workers who killed him showed that it was not so: the video shows three ambulances, the fire truck and the UN 4x4, well identified and with the sirens on.

The internal report now says that the soldiers mistook the workers for Hamas militants because they did not see well at night: “The deputy commander of the battalion thought that the vehicles were those used by the Hamas. In the face of this sense of threat, he ordered that he be shot.” According to Divisional General Yoav Har Even, responsible for the investigation, the “mental state” of the soldiers is responsible for the massacre.

The Palestinian Red Crescent and the Israeli human rights organization Breaking the Silence, however, have sharply criticized the report. On the one hand, it is not understood why the bodies were buried and hidden; on the other hand, the video shows that the ambulances carried emergency lights, and in the words of the organizations it is evident that the soldiers talked with the humanitarian workers before shooting them. The army report is “full of contradictions, vague phrases and selected details; the narration is false,” they say.

Claiming that the report is full of lies, they are calling for an independent UN investigation.