As I'm sure you do not want to be repeating questionable accounts of that terrible event.
According to a CNN investigation and the analysis of experts, as well as on-scene video testimony, the IDF appears to have - to put it bluntly - LIED.
The much-publicized video was sliced and spliced and is missing the key footage of the scenes prior - capturing what caused the crowds to disperse. Turns out, the IDF fired on the crowd BEFORE the trucks even arrived, kind of demolishing the IDF claims about looters. Hard to loot what has not yet arrived.
Oddly enough, the IDF refused CNN's request for the full unedited version of the event.
Nor was that the first time the IDF attacked unarmed, desparate and starving people waiting for aid delivery. Nor the first time that the IDF lied, I might add.
There is apparently an on-going investigation by Israel, I'm sure it's done by now. You could check with FFAM, I suppose.
On March 8, after an internal investigation, the IDF released a timeline suggesting that the aid convoy began to cross into northern Gaza accompanied by its tanks at 4:29 a.m. A minute later, at 4:30 a.m., the IDF said its troops fired “warning shots” toward the east to disperse crowds before firing at “suspects” who they claimed posed a threat. At 4:45 a.m., the military said it fired more warning shots.
But CNN’s analysis of dozens of videos from the night and testimonies from eyewitnesses’ casts doubt on Israel’s version of events. The evidence, reviewed by forensic and ballistic experts, indicated that automatic gunfire began before the IDF said the convoy had started crossing through the checkpoint and that shots were fired within close range of crowds that had gathered for food.
The IDF did not answer CNN’s questions regarding its findings but said that it stood by its previous statements about what happened on February 29. It added that the incident was being examined by the General Staff’s Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism (FFAM), an independent body, and that no further information would be released until their investigation was complete.
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