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Israel’s military said this week it would open criminal investigations into the killings of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, her relatives and 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza, while declining to investigate strikes that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders.
The announcement marks the first criminal investigations into Israeli troop conduct in the Palestinian enclave since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023. The military said it had completed reviews of 150 incidents and made decisions on five cases.
One investigation will examine the February 2024 killing of Hind Rajab, who was trapped in a car with her dead relatives and called for help before she was killed. The military acknowledged that troops fired at the vehicle and later shot at an ambulance sent to rescue her, killing two medics.
But both Hind’s grandmother and the…
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