The UN condemns the brief execution of one of its employees at the hands of Israel in Gaza: “He hit him with blows”

March 23, Kamal, an employee of the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (Yundva), left his house in Rafakh, south of the Gaza network with his UN vest. He began his car, clearly identified as the UN, and in the next hour his organization lost all the contacts with him. “His whereabouts remained unknown within a week,” said Philip Lazzarini, General Commissioner Unrwa on Wednesday.

On March 30, Kamal’s body appeared near the usual grave “along with the human remains of the red crescent of the red crescent, killed by Israeli forces.” “Kamal was killed by one or more blows on the back of the skull, and then was buried with other members of the red crescent team,” says Lazzarini.

UNVA asked Israel to explain the murder, but did not receive any. Kamal, who leaves his wife and children, worked at the UN agency for more than 20 years, which was the main network of humanitarian support throughout the gas network. “This is another case of those who are already too many. Impunity opens the door for more atrocities. We require independent studies of their murder and all other workers in UNSVA, ”says Lazzarini. Israel has already killed 310 workers from the UN agency since the beginning of its war. More than any other conflict.

On March 23, Israeli soldiers fired and attacked an ambulance, fire engines and vehicles from the UN. In addition to Kamal, 14 more humanitarian workers were killed, 8 of them from the Palestinian red crescent. In the first official version, Israel claimed that the convoy approached the lights turned off and suspiciously. Nevertheless, the video caused by a mobile image of one of the victims showed that the vehicles and their passengers were perfectly identified with placed mermaids, thereby denying the lie of Israel.

The initial Israel also claimed that the shots occurred from afar, but the audio analysis made by Bi -Bi, with a video recorded with a mobile phone of one of the victims, shows that they began about 43 meters and ended 12 meters, which is considered a short distance. There were more than 100 shots.

Salvation

The scandal revealed when on March 30, Jonathan Witall, the head of the Coordination Department for Humanitarian Affairs of the UN (OCHA) in Palestine, said that the painful rescue operation of 15 killed humanitarian workers. Witall himself, who worked in a common grave, also criticized military research. “The lack of real responsibility weakens international law and makes the world a more dangerous place. Without responsibility, we risk continuing to see atrocities, ”he said.

When Witall published what happened on March 30, he said that OCHA tried to coordinate the mission with Israel for access to the field of attack and restore the dead. “But we were allowed only five days later.” When they finally managed to enter, they met “hundreds of civilians running under shots.” “We saw how the woman was shot in the back of the head. When the young man tried to restore her, they also shot her. We could restore her body using our UN car. ”

Witall had to resign with his team and return the next day. When they arrived, they discovered a “destructive scene: ambulance vehicles, UN cars and fire truck were crushed and partially buried.” “After spending the watch, we found a corpse; civil defense worker under his truck. ” In the afternoon, the team finally continued to dig and restored all the buried bodies.

Investigation

After the initial lie of Israel was exposed, the army published in April last year the conclusions of its investigation, which in practice is an excuse for the murder of a feldshel group, which worked perfectly identified and which were eventually buried in an ordinary grave, to which Israel did not give access before a week later.

In the report of the Israeli army, “professional mistakes” and “misunderstandings” are recognized, but justifies the action of soldiers and even praises the responsible ones, despite the fact that they openly admit that they were lying. Between compliments, the Israeli army announces the dismissal of the attached commander of the unit, which made an attack.

“The deputy commander of the battalion believed that the vehicles were from the forces of Hamas, who arrived to visit passengers of the first car. Under this impression and a sense of threat, he ordered to open fire. 15 Palestinians were dead, six of which were identified in a retrospective exam as Hamas terrorists. From the fact that there was no initiation in the attached commercial justice.

The next morning, the soldiers decided to collect their bodies and bury them “to prevent more damage” and remove road vehicles “to prepare the evacuation of civilians”. The report denies that he answered an attempt to hide the massacre, although he admits that this was not an adequate decision. “The exam concludes that the removal of bodies was reasonable, given the circumstances, but the decision to crush vehicles was incorrect. In general, the event was not undertaken. ”