Israel opens internal criminal probes into killings of Hind Rajab and 15 Gaza aid workers

JERUSALEM — Israel’s military on Wednesday announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in Gaza, focusing on the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics. The military said it would not probe three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders. It said it had completed reviews of 150 incidents of troop conduct in Gaza and made decisions on the five cases. Chef José Andrés, founder of U.S.-based World Central Kitchen, condemned the decision on X as “wrong and painful.” The investigations involve killings that drew a heavy international outcry. Hind was trapped in a vehicle with her slain relatives, pleading for help by phone before she too was killed in February 2024. After the shooting of the 15 medics in March 2025, troops bulldozed their bodies into a mass grave. Israel’s campaign in Gaza has killed more than 73,000 people, including tens of thousands of women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. Rights groups and U.N. commissions have said the

The Israeli military has ordered a criminal investigation into its forces' killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl whose 2024 death sparked international outrage. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio has more.

srael’s military will open internal investigations over its troops’ high-profile killings in Gaza of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it said on Wednesday, although rights groups said such probes rarely lead to convictions. The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its […]

Israel admits that it fired on vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 08/19/2026 - 16:17 Military opens criminal investigation into the killing of nine people in January 2024, but says there was no criminal misconduct in three other cases Hind Rajab, five, was killed by Israeli forces in February 2024 alongside six members of her family and two paramedics (Screengrab/X) Off Israel’s military has for the first time admitted that it opened fire on a vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza City two-and-a-half years ago. The military said it would open a criminal investigation into the killing of nine people on 29 January 2024, including Hind.  On that date, the Palestinian girl initially survived an Israeli attack on a vehicle which killed several members of her family.  Following the Israeli shelling, Hind answered a phone call from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), during which she told medics to come and save her.  After coordination with the Israeli army, an ambulance was sent to rescue her. That ambulance was shelled by Israeli forces, killing paramedics Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun. Twelve days after the attack, the bodies of Hind, six members of her family and the two paramedics were found.  PRCS accused Israeli forces of "deliberately targeting the ambulance upon its arrival at the scene" despite prior coordination to facilitate the rescue mission.  Her mother, Wissam Rajab, told Middle East Eye at the time that the family was separated when they tried to flee the area, which was under intense Israeli attacks.  Due to poor weather, Wissam had put her daughter in the vehicle along with her uncle, his wife and their children, while the rest of the family fled on foot. After hearing gunfire in the area, the family called the Red Crescent to tell them the car was getting shot at.  Initially, Wissam thought everyone in the car was killed until she got a call from Layan Hamadeh, her 15-year-old cousin, saying: "Hind and I are wounded, and all my family is dead, I don't want to die. Please call an ambulance to save us. I'm scared. The tanks are 500 metres away from me." The line went dead, and Wissam thought they had both been killed. But when she called again, Hind answered and said: "I'm alive, but Layan was martyred. Mum, I'm afraid, they are all dead. Come and get me." The PRCS dispatched Zeino and Madhoun, the two paramedics, to rescue Hind. The medics said they were 15 minutes away and that they were looking for her, but then the line cut off and the crew lost contact.  PRCS released an audio recording of the last phone call with Hind, during which her final pleas can be heard amid the rattle of gunfire. "I'm scared of the dark, come get me," she said. According to Rajab, Hind said: "Don't leave me, I'm cold, hungry, and afraid." Israel says 'no criminal misconduct' in three other cases Hind’s death sparked widespread condemnation, and her name circulated in headlines around the world.  "Due to alleged failures in the coordination of the movement of the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance, it has been decided to initiate a criminal investigation of the incident by Military Police Criminal Investigation Division," the Israeli military said on Wednesday. It said that the investigation would be led by Israel's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division - the main body that investigates allegations of wrongdoing by the military. Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab Read More » At the time of the killings, Israel’s military said it was not in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza City where the deaths took place.  However, multiple media reports identified Israeli tanks in the area.  At the time that the car and ambulance were found, the Israeli military had stated that it "conducted raids on terror targets" in areas including Tel al-Hawa. It later deleted that press release from its website.  A film about the killing, The Voice of Hind Rajab, was nominated for an Oscar this year.  The Israeli military also announced it was opening a criminal investigation into the death of 15 aid workers in Tel al-Sultan, in southern Gaza, in March 2025.  However, in three other cases, the military said there was "no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct".  That included the Israeli killing of two Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employees in November 2023, the killing of two other MSF workers in February 2024, and the killing of seven World Central Kitchen employees in April 2024. Since October 2023, when Israel's genocide in Gaza began, Israeli forces have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 174,000 others. Israel's genocide in Gaza News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Israel’s military on Wednesday announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in the war in Gaza, focusing on the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics. The military said it would not launch criminal investigations into three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.

Killing of Rajab and her family, trapped in a vehicle and pleading for help in February, 2024, and the killing of 15 medics in May, 2025 drew international outcry

Israel's military will open internal investigations over its troops' killings in Gaza of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, although rights groups said such probes rarely lead to convictions.

Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.

Tel Aviv said it will also investigate the killing of 15 paramedics in Rafah city in March 2025.

The Israeli military will open internal criminal investigations into its troops' 2024 killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab alongside six of her relatives, as well as the killings of 15 medics and humanitarian workers in 2025, it announced Wednesday. Israeli rights groups have warned that such investigations rarely lead to convictions.

Israel’s military will open internal investigations over its troops’ killings in Gaza of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it has said, although rights groups warn such probes rarely lead to convictions. The military said on Wednesday the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment ‌Mechanism. It released decisions regarding five incidents involving the deaths of Palestinians. They included an...

Israel’s military will open internal criminal investigations over its troops’ killings in Gaza of Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it said on Wednesday. The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism. It released decisions regarding five incidents involving the deaths of Palestinians. They included an examination of the killings of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity in April 2024. On that incident, the military claimed there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation.” “For more than a thousand days, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has been conducting intensive combat across numerous fronts, carrying out a wide range of military missions in an exceptionally complex operational reality,” the Israeli military said. “As part of the IDF’s obligations under international law and Israeli domestic law, the IDF examines exceptional incidents that occurred during combat,” the military said. In January 2024, six-year-old Hind pleaded to be rescued, after her family’s car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and injured, surrounded by the bodies of her dead relatives. “I am so scared,” she had said in a desperate phone call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). “Call someone to come get me, please.” After more than two weeks of frantic efforts to reach her, Hind’s body, along with those of her relatives and two PRCS workers who had been dispatched to rescue her, was recovered. An independent investigation by the London-based research group Forensic Architecture analysed satellite imagery and visual evidence, concluding that several Israeli tanks were near the vehicle and that one fired 335 rounds at the car carrying Hind and her family. The group also suggested that a tank likely attacked the ambulance. Hind’s story and the recording of her emergency call later became the basis for the docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania. The film was nominated for best international feature film in the Academy Awards this year. The film incorporates real audio from Hind’s call to Red Crescent emergency workers. In March this year, US lawmakers introduced legislation demanding a US investigation into Hind’s killing.

The military said the investigation followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism, but rights groups say criminal investigations into Israeli troops over Palestinian deaths rarely lead to convictions

JERUSALEM, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Israel's military will open internal criminal investigations over its troops' killings of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and fifteen emergency and aid workers in March 2025, the military said on Wednesday. The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism. It released decisions regarding five incidents involving the deaths of Palestinians.

The investigations will focus on the killings of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind ⁠Rajab and 15 emergency aid workers in Gaza. The decision came after a review of 150 incidents concerning the conduct of Israeli troops.