Israel military admits mistakes led to killing of Gaza medics
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
An IDF inquiry into the killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza last month found a series of professional failures, but says six of those killed were Hamas members. Also: Russia’s brief Easter truce with Ukraine has ended.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Monday the 21st of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.1 | Israel's military has admitted its soldiers made mistakes when they opened fire on emergency vehicles in Gaza last month, killing 15 rescue workers. |
| 0:23.4 | A ceasefire declared by Russia in its conflict with Ukraine has ended, with both sides accusing each other of numerous violations. |
| 0:31.1 | Also, in this podcast, Pope Francis has appeared at the Vatican balcony to wish |
| 0:36.3 | happy Easter to thousands of worshippers. |
| 0:39.2 | And our overarching ambition is to use immersive technologies to mend the broken relationship that we have with nature, |
| 0:46.5 | to bring people closer to it in absence of being able to physically do so. |
| 0:50.5 | Can virtual reality really help us appreciate nature? |
| 1:06.4 | It was an incident that drew international condemnation, the killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza last month. |
| 1:13.9 | Even more troubling was the fact the Israeli army initially claimed the convoy of vehicles didn't have their emergency lights on. |
| 1:21.3 | That was proved to be false after a video was found on the phone of one of the paramedics who'd been buried in a shallow grave, |
| 1:25.3 | along with Gaza civil defence workers and a UN employee. |
| 1:29.4 | This was the moment the rescue workers arrived to help some injured people only to be shot at for more than five minutes by Israeli soldiers. |
| 1:52.5 | The Israel Defence Forces have now carried out an internal investigation into what happened and they've published their conclusions. |
| 1:55.0 | Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Gary O'Donoghue, unpacked the findings of the investigation. |
| 2:00.3 | What they've concluded is that the soldiers involved in the killing of the 14 aid workers |
| 2:06.4 | and the UN worker. |
| 2:08.2 | In the first case of the 14 aid workers, medics and civil defence rescue people, basically, |
| 2:14.4 | they say that it was operational misunderstandings that led to that. They say that |
| 2:19.0 | there was a problem with night visibility in identifying these as ambulances, even though we have |
| 2:24.4 | video evidence from one of the phones of one of the men who was killed, that they did have their |
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