Israeli voices against the barbarity their armed forces are inflicting on Gaza and the West Bank are beginning to be heard, and not just on social media. Despite the harsh wartime censorship over Israeli media, some media did cover the discovery of the mass grave in which 15 Palestinian medics, whom the Israel Defense Forces killed on March 23, had been buried, along with the five crushed ambulances and firetrucks in their convoy heading to rescue those injured by an Israeli airstrike.
Today, Haaretz and Times of Israel, at least, are known to have reported on the just-released video which proves that the IDF “explanation” of the massacre was not true. They embedded the video of the ambulance convoy driving with their rotating top lights blazing, only to be stopped and met with a hail of bullets, in those stories.
Four days before this video proof came to light, Haaretz, a significant daily in the country, had dedicated its April 1 lead editorial to the ambulance massacre, under the headline: “Israelis Will Have To Look in the Mirror and See the Gaza Atrocities Committed in Our Name.” The editorial, as usual, was published in its Hebrew and English editions.
After describing what was known at the time about the massacre, the editorial denounced the IDF’s explanation of the events as “inadequate, especially given the army’s permissive rules of engagement in the Gaza Strip and the fact that officers in the field ignore international law and even Israeli law.”
