After NYT report, IDF is probing the killing of Gazan medic in June

The Israeli military on Sunday responded to a New York Times report that questioned its use of live fire in an incident along the Gaza border on June 1, in which Razan al-Najjar, a female Palestinian medic, was killed when a soldier fired into a crowd of rioters. The NYT report claims this was a possible war crime. The IDF said the army's internal investigations body is "probing to clarify the reasons behind the death of Razan al-Najjar. The results of the investigation will be sent to the military advocate general upon their completion." For its investigation, The Times analyzed over 1,000 photographs and videos of the incident, interviewed over 30 eyewitnesses, spoke to Israeli and Palestinian officials and ballistics experts, and worked with the Israeli-run company Forensic Architecture to build a 3D rendering of the shooting, which also integrated drone and cellphone footage. "The bullet that killed her, The Times found, was fired by an Israeli sniper into a crowd that included -coated medics in plain view. A detailed reconstruction, stitched together from hundreds of crowd-sourced videos and photographs, shows that neither the medics nor anyone around them posed any apparent threat of violence to Israeli personnel," it said. "Though Israel later admitted her killing was unintentional, the shooting appears to have been reckless at best, and possibly a war crime, for which no one has yet been punished," the report added. According to The Times, the bullet that killed Najjar also injured two other medics. Following an initial investigation, the military confirmed that shots had been fired in the area around the time that Najjar was killed, but said that no live fire was intentionally aimed at the medic. "During the incident, a limited number of bullets were fired and no gunfire was directly or intentionally fired at her," the army said in a statement. The medic's death sparked a flurry of condemnations against the State of Israel and the IDF, from Palestinians, from within Israel, and internationally. ******************************** Photos: The victim, and her funeral Vids: Video clip in her memory, including a footage of symbolic hurling a gas canister by her nearby the border fence; The border riots at the day the medic was killed, including hurling a grenade across the fence

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