Israeli army launches criminal probe into killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Aug 19, 2026 · 874 words

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Israeli army launches criminal probe into killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza The Israeli military will open internal criminal investigations into its troops' 2024 killing of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab alongside six of her relatives, as well…

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Israeli rights groups have warned that such investigations rarely lead to convictions.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Those killed included eight Red Crescent staff, six members of the Gaza civil defence agency and one employee of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees”

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Claim 2: “It claimed that of the 15 killed, "six of those ... were identified as belonging to Hamas"”

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Claim 3: “The Israeli military will open internal criminal investigations into its troops' 2024 killing of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab alongside six of her relatives”

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Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia, Roya News, and other web search results) confirm that the Israeli military admitted its soldiers fired on the car and launched a criminal investigation into the death of Hind Rajab and her family members.

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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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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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Claim 4: “the original audio recordings of her emergency call were incorporated into the Oscar-nominated feature film "The Voice of Hind Rajab"”

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Wikipedia confirms the existence of a 2025 docudrama film titled 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' directed by Kaouther Ben Hania which follows the Red Crescent response during the event.

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Claim 5: “the death of the 15 Palestinians, including the medical personnel, after shots were fired at their ambulances in southern Gaza in March 2025”

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Claim 6: “the military said criminal investigations would not be launched into the three other incidents it reviewed, involving the killing of employees from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders (MSF)”

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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the military's decision NOT to launch investigations into World Central Kitchen or Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the context of these specific probes.

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Claim 7: “The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said at the time that a team of first responders was killed by Israeli forces on March 23”

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Claim 8: “Hind's body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024”

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Wikipedia confirms Hind Rajab was killed on January 29, 2024, and the context of her death involves the Red Crescent response. Other sources confirm she was found in a vehicle after a desperate phone call.

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Claim 9: “The bodies were found buried near Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah in what OCHA described as a mass grave”

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Claim 10: “Her body was eventually recovered along with those of six relatives and two Red Crescent rescue workers sent to find her”

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Wikipedia and other web search results confirm that Hind Rajab, six family members, and two Red Crescent paramedics were killed and their bodies eventually recovered.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Motaz Malhees (Arabic: معتز ملحّيس‎; born 21 December 1992) is a Palestinian actor based in London. He starred in the films 200 Meters (2020) and The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025).
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Claim 11: “troops had "fired at a vehicle that was approaching them while travelling contrary to the advanced notice" that had been given to residents in the area”

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Web search results indicate the Israeli military's position that troops fired at a vehicle traveling contrary to advanced notice given to residents.

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Claim 12: “the military... launching a criminal probe into the 2025 killings of 15 Palestinians including medics and humanitarian personnel”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm the Israeli military is launching criminal probes into both the killing of Hind Rajab and the killing of 15 Palestinian medics/humanitarian personnel in March 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afro-Palestinians or Black Palestinians are Palestinians who descend from the Black racial groups of Africa. In the Gaza Strip, around 1% of the population is estimated to be black, with roughly 11,00…
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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 …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hostages-and-prisoners exchange and armistice between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 19 January to 18 March 2025, during the Gaza war. It include…
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Claim 13: “As a result of the fire, five of the vehicle's passengers were killed, and two survived: Hind Rajab and her cousin Layan Hamada”

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Multiple sources confirm that the initial fire killed five passengers, while Hind Rajab and her cousin Layan Hamada initially survived.

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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 — Hind Rajab initially survived the Israeli attack but was found dead days later along with relatives and two paramedics (Image: Palestinian Red Crescent).It said the initial fire killed five of the pas…
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0819/1588530-israeli-mili…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hind lost her life as the vehicle carrying her family faced heavy gunfire while trying to escape Gaza City.According to the report, due to the fire incident, five individuals in the vehicle lost their…
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Claim 14: “"On March 23, 2025, three shooting incidents occurred toward different rescue vehicles, including a fire truck, ambulances, and a UN vehicle, during an ambush carried out by IDF troops against operatives of the Hamas terrorist organisation" the military said”

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Claim 15: “upon the ambulance's arrival at the scene of the incident, a shell was fired toward it, resulting in the deaths of the two paramedics travelling in it”

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While the general event of the paramedics' deaths is corroborated, the specific detail about a 'shell' being fired upon the ambulance's arrival was not explicitly found in the provided evidence snippets.

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Claim 16: “the killings of 15 medics and humanitarian workers in 2025”

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Multiple sources (Naharnet, Khaleej Times, and other web results) report that 15 medics and humanitarian workers were killed in Gaza in 2025, with some specifically mentioning March 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fifteen or 15 most often refers to: 15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 One of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Fifteen or 15 may also refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 15.ai was a free non-commercial web application and research project that used artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudo…
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Claim 17: “It said troops had then decided to "crush the vehicles and to cover the bodies with metal mesh"”

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