IDF admits for first time it fired on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab

WorldPolitics
19 Aug 2026 • 9:59 PM MYT
The Independent
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IDF admits for first time it fired on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab

  • The Israeli military has opened a criminal investigation into the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family, admitting for the first time that troops fired on their vehicle.
  • Hind, her aunt and uncle and her four cousins died while trying to flee Gaza City in February 2024.
  • “The findings of the examination indicate that IDF troops fired at a vehicle that was approaching them,” a statement from the Israeli military said.
  • A second criminal probe will investigate the deaths of 15 Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces in Rafah in May 2025.
  • The military declined to launch criminal investigations into three separate attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders.

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