Israeli military launches criminal probes into killings of Hind Rajab and Palestinian paramedics
The military said it found reasonable suspicion in the two cases after reviewing 150 incidents, while clearing three other aid-worker killings.
- The Israeli military announced on August 19, 2026, that it has opened criminal investigations into the high-profile killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two Red Crescent paramedics who were dispatched to rescue her.
- In its statement, the military acknowledged for the first time that Israeli troops fired upon the civilian vehicle carrying Rajab and her relatives in Gaza City in January 2024, and later shelled the arriving Red Crescent ambulance.
- The military also launched a separate criminal probe into the killings of 15 Palestinian paramedics and emergency workers whose marked rescue vehicles came under fire in the southern Gaza region.
- Concurrent review findings led the military to decline criminal investigations into three other high-profile attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, citing a lack of reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct.
- Family members of the victims, human rights organizations, and international legal groups expressed skepticism over the move, dismissing the internal military probes as insufficient and calling for an independent international inquiry.
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Israel admits firing on car where five-year-old died
The Israeli military on Wednesday admitted its troops fired on a car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza in 2024, saying it had ordered a criminal investigation into the killing, which drew international outrage. Hind Rajab's body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024. The Israeli military had pr…
The Israeli army admitted that its troops had opened fire on the car of Palestinian woman Hind Rajab, who had been killed in 2024 in Gaza.
The Israeli army has for the first time confirmed that Israeli soldiers opened fire on the vehicle in Gaza in which 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and her family were killed. The army announced that a military investigation would be launched into the deaths of Hind and two healthcare workers.
The film Hind Rajab's Voice, available on Netflix, tells of the last moments of the girl in Gaza.More than two years later, the Israel Defense Forces reported an important update of the events.
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