Israeli military to open criminal probes into 2 Gaza attacks

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Aug 19, 2026 · 1003 words · By Natalie Muller

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Israeli military to open criminal probes into 2 Gaza attacks August 19, 2026 The Israeli military has announced it will open criminal investigations into two high-profile attacks on Palestinians during the Gaza war.

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What happened

Why it matters

In a report published Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had reviewed 150 incidents involving its troops in the Palestinian enclave and had made decisions about five of the cases.

Common ground

The killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024 and 15 Palestinian paramedics in 2025 would be subject to a criminal probe, the military said.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that The military report said that "six of those killed were identified as belonging to Hamas."?
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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-idf-gaza-criminal-investigation-hind-rajab-un-msf-w…

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Claim 1: “The military report said that "six of those killed were identified as belonging to Hamas."”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to corroborate the military's claim regarding the identification of six Hamas members in the Tel al-Sultan incident.

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Claim 2: “On March 23, 2025, 15 emergency workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the UN were killed when Israeli troops fired on their vehicles in Tel al-Sultan in northern Rafah.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to corroborate the specific date of March 23, 2025, or the details of this specific incident.

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Claim 3: “the airstrikes on a World Central Kitchen convoy in April 2024 that resulted in the deaths of seven of the charity's employees.”

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Claim 4: “Israel said it had also struck a Hamas commander in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip who had taken part in the Islamist group's attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.”

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Claim 5: “In a report published Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had reviewed 150 incidents involving its troops in the Palestinian enclave and had made decisions about five of the cases.”

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Three independent news sources (Chinadaily, Daily Sabah, and another web result) explicitly state that the military reviewed 150 incidents and made decisions on five cases.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the military wing …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Middle East is experiencing an ongoing series of interrelated wars, conflicts, and heightened instability, triggered by the ongoing Gaza war and the genocide in Gaza. These have primarily consist…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023–pr…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
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Claim 6: “On January 29, 2024, Israeli forces fired on a car approaching them that was carrying a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, and her relatives in Gaza City”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Hind Rami Iyad Rajab was killed by the IDF on January 29, 2024, in the Gaza Strip.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) is the legal arm of the March 30 Movement, a non-profit organization established in 2024 and based in Brussels, Belgium. The HRF's mission is to address and challenge w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_Rajab_Foundation

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hind Rami Iyad Rajab (Arabic: هند رامي إياد رجب; 3 May 2018 – 29 January 2024) was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Voice of Hind Rajab (Arabic: صوت هند رجب, romanized: Ṣawt Hind Rajab) is a 2025 docudrama film written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It follows the Red Crescent response during the killing o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_of_Hind_Rajab

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Claim 7: “Five of the passengers were killed, while Rajab and her 15-year-old cousin Layan Hamada survived.”

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Web search results confirm the Israeli army admitted that initial fire killed five passengers, while Hind Rajab and Layan Hamada survived initially.

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web search NEUTRAL — The cousin was later also killed and Rajab was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, as paramedics from PRCS attempted to rescue her. Both Rajab and the paramedics were later also found…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

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web search NEUTRAL — It said the initial fire killed five of the passengers, while Hind Rajab and her cousin Layan Hamada survived. The military said movement of a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance had then been coordinate…
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20260819-israel-army-launc…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Hind Rajab investigation, however, carries particular significance because the military’s latest findings alter a central element of its previous account. More than two years after Hind was killed…
https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/israel-admits-troops-fired-o…

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Claim 8: “That attack led by Hamas killed around 1,200 Israelis”

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Claim 9: “The killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024 and 15 Palestinian paramedics in 2025 would be subject to a criminal probe, the military said.”

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Web search results confirm the military will probe the killing of Hind Rajab (2024) and 15 Palestinian paramedics (noted as May 2025 in one source).

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Claim 10: “Israel to launch its offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, according to the territory's Health Ministry.”

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Claim 11: “Twelve days later, the bodies of Hind and seven of her relatives were recovered from the scene, along with two paramedics.”

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Multiple sources confirm that Hind and her relatives were found dead 12 days after the incident, along with the two paramedics.

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web search NEUTRAL — During the 12 days she was missing, Rajab's case garnered international attention with calls by activists and humanitarian organizations to find her and bring her to safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

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web search NEUTRAL — 12 days later, Hind was found dead inside the bullet-riddled vehicle alongside six relatives. The bodies of the two paramedics sent to rescue her were also discovered nearby.
https://anewz.tv/world/world-news/23528/hind-rajabs-grandmot…

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web search NEUTRAL — Desperate Calls for Help For 12 days, harrowing audio recordings of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, calling for help has shocked the world before finding her little body along with five oth…
https://pchrgaza.org/hind-and-lian-desperate-calls-for-help/

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Claim 12: “it said it would not take that step in the case of three other attacks in which aid workers from the charities World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) were killed.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results about printers and general information about WCK, but no evidence regarding the military's decision NOT to open criminal probes into these specific cases.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack occurred on 1 April 2024, when Israeli drones targeted a three-car convoy belonging to World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip, killing seven aid wor…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots organization that was established in Beit Lahia, Gaza, to provide food for Palestinians at risk of famine during the Gaza war. Founded in early 2024 by brothers Hani …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that provides food relief. It was founded in 2010 by Spanish American chef and restaurateur José Andrés following the ear…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen

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Claim 13: “The Israeli military has announced it will open criminal investigations into two high-profile attacks on Palestinians during the Gaza war.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that the Israeli military announced criminal investigations into two high-profile attacks on Palestinians during the Gaza war.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the ongoing Gaza war, Israeli male and female soldiers, guards and medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian women, children and men including rape, ga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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Claim 14: “fighting has largely died down since a ceasefire agareed in October last year”

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Claim 15: “an Israeli airstrike on a police station in Gaza City on Wednesday killed at least nine people and injured more than 20 others, according to Palestinian health authorities.”

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Claim 16: “An ambulance dispatched to the site was also allegedly hit by a shell as it arrived.”

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Web search results mention Al Jazeera's reconstruction of a tank shell striking the ambulance and other reports of the medics being killed on the way to rescue her.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Hind Rajab Foundation, an organization dedicated to holding Israeli soldiers accountable for alleged war crimes, is named after her.[55][56] At the one year anniversary from Rajab's killing, a vig…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

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web search NEUTRAL — Searched for: "Hind Rajab shot by Israeli forces 2023-2026". Found 13 sources.Al Jazeera specifically reconstructed a tank shell trajectory that it judged directly struck the ambulance that had come t…
https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/hind-rajab-shot-30…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) said on Saturday that it has identified the Israeli soldiers who were responsible for killing a six-year-old Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab, her six family members a…
https://www.outlookindia.com/international/foundation-sues-i…

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Claim 17: “the killings of four staffers from Doctors Without Borders in two separate incidents in Gaza City in November 2023 and Khan Younis in February 2024.”

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