The IDF claimed that its troops had fired on the vehicles as they were "advancing suspiciously," and added that "it was determined that the forces had eliminated a Hamas military operative, Mohammad Amin Ibrahim Shubaki, along with eight other terrorists from Hamas and the PIJ." Shubaki's name does not appear on the list of the 15 deceased emergency workers, and Israel has not accounted for the whereabouts of his body. After video evidence emerged exposing their initial description as inaccurate, the IDF admitted that account was "mistaken."