The Israeli army provided new details that changed their initial view of the killing of 15 emergency workers last month near the city of southern Gaza Rafah, but said investigators are still testing evidence.

15 Emergency and Emergency Respondents were shot on March 2nd and buried in a shallow grave, where their bodies were found a week later by officials of the United Nations and Palestinian Red Crescent. Another man is still missing.

The army initially said that the soldiers had opened fire on vehicles that approached their position “suspicious” in the dark without light or tags. It was said that they killed nine militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who traveled in Palestinian red crescent vehicles.

But the video recovered from one of the dead people’s mobile phone, posted by Palestinian Red Crescent showed emergency workers in uniforms and clearly marked ambulances and fire trucks, and the lights were extinguished by soldiers.

The only well -known survivor incident, Palestinian Paramedic Red Crescent Munther Abed, also said he saw soldiers opening a fire on clearly marked ambulance vehicles.

The Israeli military official said late Saturday that investigators were reviewing the video, and the conclusions were expected to be presented on Sunday by military commanders.

No mention of light on vehicles

He said that the initial report received from the field did not describe the lights, but that investigators are watching “operating information” and trying to understand if it was a person who published the initial report.

“What we currently understand is the person who gives the initial account. We are trying to understand why.”

Israeli media reported by the army reported that the troops identified at least six of the 15 dead as members of militant groups. However, the official refused to provide any evidence or details about the way the identifications were established, saying that he did not want to share classified information.

‘There were terrorists’

“According to our data, there were terrorists there, but this investigation is not over,” he told reporters at the briefing late on Saturday.

The UN and Palestinian Red Crescent requested an independent examination of the killing of paramedics.

The Red Crescent and UN officials said 17 paramedics and emergency workers from the Red Crescent, civil emergency and UN were sent to respond to reports on Israeli air attacks.

Apart from Abed, who was detained for a few hours before the release, another worker is still missing.

The UN said last week that Israeli forces were killed by available information that killed one team and the other emergency crews and help were killed one after the other for several hours while looking for their colleagues missing.

Vehicles observed with air supervision

The military official said the initial findings of the investigation showed that the troops had opened the fire on the vehicle at about 4 am, killing two members of Hamas’s internal security forces and taking another prisoner, who he said was admitted to being in the Hamas.

As time went on, several vehicles passed the road until around 6 o’clock in the morning, he said that the troops were getting a word from air control to approach a suspicious group of vehicles.

“They think this is another incident like what happened at 4am and opened fire,” the official said.

The soldiers opened fire from far away ‘

He said the air supervision shots show that the troops were at a distance when they opened the fire, and he denied reports that the fox troops had put at least some paramedics and fired them in the immediate vicinity.

“It’s not close. They opened the fire from afar,” he said. “There is no harassment of people there.”

He said the soldiers approached the group they were shooting, identifying at least some of them as militants. However, he did not explain which evidence encouraged.

“And in their eyes they had a meeting with terrorists, it is a successful encounter with terrorists.”

He said the troops informed the UN on the same day of the incident and covered the bodies with a camouflage net until they could recover.