JERUSALEM: Israel’s navy stated Wednesday (Aug 19) it might launch felony investigations into two high-profile assaults on Palestinians throughout the warfare in Gaza, together with the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her household and of 15 Palestinian paramedics.
The navy stated it might not launch felony investigations into three different assaults that killed help staff from World Central Kitchen and Medical doctors With out Borders.
It launched the information in a press release that stated it had accomplished critiques of 150 incidents of troop conduct in Gaza and made choices on 5 instances.
The assertion didn’t point out different high-profile killings that the navy has pledged to analyze all through the warfare. It didn’t point out the Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza that killed 5 journalists in August 2025, together with Mariam Dagga, a visible journalist who freelanced for The Related Press and different information organisations.
THE KILLINGS DREW INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY
Each the killing of Rajab in February 2024 and the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in Could 2025 gained worldwide consideration.
Rajab was killed alongside her family members whereas making an attempt to flee Gaza Metropolis amid an Israeli offensive. Israeli troops opened fireplace on a car carrying Hind and 4 of her cousins and her aunt and uncle. Hind’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamada, referred to as the Palestinian Pink Crescent paramedic centre, telling them {that a} tank was approaching and that her household had been killed.
Seconds later, extra gunshots have been heard, and Layan’s screaming stopped, in keeping with the Pink Crescent recording of the decision.
Hind was the only survivor within the automotive. The Pink Crescent stayed involved along with her as they tried to get permission from the navy to rescue her. Contact was misplaced. Hind, her 5 family members and two medics have been discovered useless 12 days later.
The 15 paramedics have been killed when Israeli troops opened fireplace on their autos within the southern metropolis of Rafah, then buried them in a mass grave. Troops shot at a primary ambulance that was driving to retrieve casualties from an Israeli offensive, then fired on a number of different emergency autos that went out to search for the primary one, in keeping with cellphone footage and the only survivor of the shootings.
Troops then bulldozed over the our bodies together with their mangled autos, burying them in a mass grave. UN and rescue staff have been solely in a position to attain the location per week later to dig out the our bodies.
