⚖️ IDF PROSECUTION RULES ON FIVE FFAM CASES: The IDF says its General Staff Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism has completed reviews of approximately 150 exceptional wartime incidents since the beginning of the war and transferred them to the Military Prosecution. Decisions have now been issued in five cases involving humanitarian organizations, medical personnel and civilians in Gaza.
In the April 2024 World Central Kitchen incident, in which seven WCK employees were killed, the review found that IDF forces mistakenly assessed that Hamas operatives had taken control of the convoy after identifying armed individuals whose presence had not been coordinated with the IDF. Despite serious failures, the Military Prosecution found no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct and ordered no criminal investigation. Several officers had already been removed from their positions or formally reprimanded.
In the January 2024 Hind Rajab/Hamada family incident, involving fire toward a family vehicle and allegations concerning a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance, resulting in nine deaths, the Military Prosecution ordered an MPCID criminal investigation due to alleged failures in coordinating the ambulance’s movement.
A criminal investigation was also ordered into the March 2025 Tel al-Sultan incident, in which IDF troops fired during three encounters involving rescue and UN vehicles, killing 15 Palestinians, including medical personnel and paramedics. The FFAM identified six of those killed as Hamas members. The Military Prosecution determined that the firing raised reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct. The IDF had previously issued a command remark to the 14th Brigade commander and ordered the Golani Reconnaissance Unit deputy commander to leave his position.
Regarding a February 2024 strike on an MSF building in Khan Yunis, which killed two women and injured seven others, the review found that troops fired for a military purpose at a location they assessed as threatening and did not possess updated information identifying it as an MSF site. No criminal investigation was ordered, although commanders were instructed to consider command measures over faults in the attack process.
In the November 2023 MSF convoy incident in Gaza City, in which two passengers were killed, the review found that the convoy returned north without the required coordination after being warned that doing so could endanger it. The IDF said the deaths may have resulted from ricochet or bullet splash from warning fire and found no evidence that direct fire was aimed at the convoy. The Military Prosecution found no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct and declined to open an investigation.
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