Israel’s military on Wednesday said it will open criminal investigations into the killings of Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics in Gaza. It also said it will not probe three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders. The statement came after reviews of 150 incidents of troop conduct in Gaza and amid renewed criticism over accountability.
Eid Aziz, media director for the Red Crescent, points at pictures of Palestinian medics who were killed by the Israeli army, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Aug. 19. Reuters-Yonhap
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.”
