Israel\u2019s military acknowledged on Wednesday that its troops had opened fire on a car carrying five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family members in Gaza in 2024 and said it had opened a criminal investigation, though rights groups say such probes rarely lead to convictions.<\/p>\n
Hind Rajab\u2019s killing was one of the most high-profile incidents involving civilian deaths during Israel\u2019s military assault \u200cin Gaza, launched following the 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.<\/p>\n
She died after being pinned down in a car for hours, begging Palestinian medical workers by mobile phone to send help, while her aunt, uncle and three cousins already lay dead.<\/p>\n
An ambulance was dispatched, but soon after it arrived at the scene the dispatchers lost contact with both the girl and the responders. Twelve days later, the bodies of the girl, her relatives and two ambulance workers were recovered from the area.<\/p>\n
The military previously denied its troops had been in the area near where she was killed. On Wednesday, it said that following a months-long probe by \u2060an internal fact-finding mechanism, it found that troops opened fire at her vehicle as it was approaching them.<\/p>\n
It said a shell was later fired at a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance \u200cthat had been dispatched to save her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s military acknowledged on Wednesday that its troops had opened fire on a car carrying five-year-old Palestinian girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[70855,496,1411,70751,4625,37,3694,2412,72,7888,2253,70730,66874],"class_list":["post-256714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-fact-finding-and-assessment-mechanism","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hind-rajab","tag-international-law","tag-israel","tag-israel-defence-forces","tag-israeli","tag-israeli-military","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinians","tag-world-central-kitchen","tag-yesh-din"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117124277557136441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}