The mother of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces while in her family’s car in Gaza City, is demanding an independent investigation into her daughter’s death. She criticized the Israeli military’s announcement of an internal investigation this week, stating that it is insufficient to address the circumstances of the incident.
Israel’s military this week admitted to firing at the family’s car as it fled an Israeli invasion and firing toward an ambulance dispatched to help them.
Israel’s military this week admitted to firing at the family’s car as it fled an Israeli invasion and firing toward an ambulance dispatched to help them. All six people in the car and two paramedics were killed. But both Rajab’s family and emergency responders from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society doubt the Israeli investigation can deliver justice. “Why did the investigation and the acknowledgment of the shooting at Hind’s car and at the paramedics come only after more than two years? “It’s an attempt to distract from what’s happening in Gaza and improve the (Israeli) army’s image to the world. That’s it. The two medics sent to rescue her were also found dead nearby, their ambulance blackened and destroyed.
The widely publicized recording of Hind’s January 2024 phone call with her mother and emergency dispatchers made her one of the Israel-Hamas war’s most prominent casualties. Hind and five relatives were found dead in the family car 12 days later.
It said it would launch a criminal investigation into its troops’ conduct. Hamada said in an interview with The Associated Press.
