JERUSALEM — The Palestinian doctor became a symbol of the Gaza offensive after he captivated Israeli TV viewers with a sobbing live report on the death of his three daughters in Israeli shelling. On Wednesday, Israel’s military said its troops were fired on from nearby and called the mistaken identification of people in his house “reasonable.”
The military expressed sadness at the deaths.
Israel is pursuing a number of investigations into Gaza deaths in the three-week offensive that killed 1,300 people, about half of them civilians, according to Palestinian figures.
Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, 55, has denied there were any militants in his house. His daughters, ages 22, 15 and 14, were killed. Abu al-Aish is a known peace activist who studied the affects of war on Gazan and Israeli children. The Associated Press
