JERUSALEM: Israel’s army mentioned Wednesday (Aug 19) it might launch legal investigations into two high-profile assaults on Palestinians through the conflict in Gaza, together with the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her household and of 15 Palestinian paramedics.
The army mentioned it might not launch legal investigations into three different assaults that killed assist staff from World Central Kitchen and Docs With out Borders.
It launched the information in an announcement that mentioned it had accomplished evaluations of 150 incidents of troop conduct in Gaza and made choices on 5 circumstances.
The assertion didn’t point out different high-profile killings that the army has pledged to research all through the conflict. 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 kinfolk whereas attempting to flee Gaza Metropolis amid an Israeli offensive. Israeli troops opened fireplace on a automobile 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 had been heard, and Layan’s screaming stopped, in line with the Pink Crescent recording of the decision.
Hind was the only survivor within the automobile. The Pink Crescent stayed involved along with her as they tried to get permission from the army to rescue her. Contact was misplaced. Hind, her 5 kinfolk and two medics had been discovered lifeless 12 days later.
The 15 paramedics had 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 line with telephone 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 had been solely capable of attain the positioning every week later to dig out the our bodies.
