News Wrap: Israel finds ‘failures’ that led to killing of Palestinian medics in Gaza
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🗓️ 20 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In tonight's other news, the Israeli military says professional failures led to the killing |
| 0:05.9 | of more than a dozen Palestinian medics in Gaza last month. |
| 0:09.8 | That's the conclusion of an internal investigation following the discovery of a shallow grave |
| 0:14.6 | holding the bodies of 14 Red Crescent medics and a UN worker. |
| 0:19.0 | The report said the troops were operating in a hostile and dangerous |
| 0:22.5 | combat zone, and that investigators found several professional failures, breaches of orders, |
| 0:28.7 | and a failure to fully report the incident. Initially, Israel said troops had opened fire on vehicles |
| 0:34.3 | that were approaching in a suspicious manner, but cell phone video recovered later from one of the victims showed the ambulances |
| 0:40.6 | emergency lights were flashing. |
| 0:42.5 | Israel has long accused Hamas of using ambulances to transport fighters and weapons. |
| 0:47.7 | The Israeli military said a deputy commander will be fired for providing an inaccurate report |
| 0:53.3 | of the incident. Three states say they have |
| 0:56.6 | their first measles cases of the year. State health officials in Missouri, Louisiana, and |
| 1:02.2 | Virginia report one case each. They're not believed to be related and all stem from recent |
| 1:07.5 | international travel. According to the latest CDC numbers, there have been 800 confirmed cases in this year |
| 1:14.2 | and three deaths from measles. |
| 1:16.7 | 96% of cases involve people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. |
| 1:23.6 | Pope Francis's Easter Sunday at the Vatican was different from years past. |
| 1:27.9 | He didn't preside over Easter Mass, but he did offer a blessing from a balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square. |
| 1:33.7 | The pontiff also blessed some children in the crowd when he drove around the square in the Pope Mobile. |
| 1:38.9 | Those gathered for the High Holy Day said they were happy to see the 88-year-old recovering from a bout of double |
| 1:45.3 | pneumonia. When I walked up here, I felt very excited to see all the people here and have never |
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