Australia on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of 15 paramedics and civil defense workers in Gaza by Israeli forces last month.
"The deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza are unacceptable," an Australian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement.
"There should be a thorough and independent investigation. Those responsible should be held to account," he said.
The demands came a day after a video released Saturday (4/5) by The New York Times exposed deliberate lies by the Israeli army about the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics in southern Gaza on March 23.
The video was taken from the mobile phone of a paramedic whose body was later found buried in a mass grave.
The video reveals the Israeli army's initial claim that the vehicles were advancing "suspiciously" from its forces "without headlights, or emergency signals, (and) their movements were not coordinated in advance."
The army claimed that nine members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups were killed in the attack.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong also told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the world was seeking a "proper and thorough investigation."
The bodies of eight paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent, six Gaza civil defense service workers, and one UN official were found buried in a shallow mass grave near Tel al-Sultan outside Rafah on March 30 next to the wreckage of their vehicles.
More than 50,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli military attacks since October 2023.
Source: Anadolu
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