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On Friday, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) rejected the results of an Israeli army investigation into the “flour massacre” that occurred a week ago west of Gaza City, which resulted in the death of about 120 Palestinians who were part of a crowd awaiting the arrival of food aid, and described the investigation as sham and misleading.
The movement said in a press statement that the investigation presented by the Israeli occupation army into the Nabulsi roundabout massacre that occurred on February 29 is “false and deceptive and goes beyond the compelling facts, which documented the exposure of Palestinians to direct fire on the upper parts of the body with the intention of immediate killing.”
The statement added that the evidence, including inspection of the bodies of the martyrs, confirms that they were deliberately exposed to fire from soldiers and tanks.
The Hamas movement said, "The horrific massacre will remain a witness to the criminality and Nazism of the Israeli entity, which lacks human and moral values."
Earlier today, the Israeli army published preliminary results of the investigation into what happened near the Nabulsi roundabout, west of Gaza City, and said that it did not open fire on the humanitarian aid convoy, but rather on a number of “suspects” who approached its forces at the site and posed a threat to them.
The occupation army claimed that it fired "accurately" at those it described as suspects after they continued to advance towards the forces located near the convoy despite the warning shots it fired to drive them away, according to its claim.
In the results it published today, the Israeli army repeated its first account of a stampede occurring among the crowd, which it estimated at about 12,000, and it also reported that a number of them were run over by aid trucks.
The United States and other Western countries called on Israel to investigate the events at Nabulsi Roundabout.
But that did not prevent the Israeli army from targeting other Palestinian crowds who were awaiting the arrival of aid in several places in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies