88 percent of Israeli military investigations into war crimes since October 2023 produced no results: Report
Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) found that the unresolved probes include the killing of at least 112 Palestinians queuing for flour in Gaza City in February 2024 and that of five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family on 29 January 2024.
A case in which the Israeli military admitted its soldiers tied Palestinian man Mujahed Azmi to the front of a military jeep during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on 23 June 2024, led to 'no findings or disciplinary actions" being disclosed.
The killing of 15 Palestinian medics on 23 March, when Israeli soldiers open fired on a clearly marked ambulance, also remains unresolved, despite the Israeli military admitting to "professional failures" and dismissing a deputy commander.
AOAV said that the findings reveal that Israel is seeking to create a "pattern of impunity" by failing to conduct conclusive investigations into cases involving 'the most severe or public accusations of wrongdoing by their forces".
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