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JERUSALEM -- Throughout its grinding seven-month warfare against Hamas, Israel has pledged to analyse a bid of deadly events successful which its subject forces are suspected of wrongdoing. The committedness comes successful the look of mounting claims - from quality rights groups and the International Criminal Court 's main authoritative - that the country's leaders are committing warfare crimes successful Hamas-ruled Gaza.
In 1 of the highest-profile cases, an attack connected a World Central Kitchen convoy that killed 5 overseas assistance workers, the Israeli service promptly published its findings, acknowledged misconduct by its forces and dismissed 2 soldiers. But different investigations stay open, and admissions of guilt are rare.
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Israel's Military Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said this week that the subject is investigating astir 70 cases of alleged wrongdoing. She gave fewer details. The subject refused to disclose the afloat database of investigations and told The Associated Press it could lone respond to queries astir circumstantial probes.
A look astatine immoderate of the investigations that person been publically announced:
A DEADLY STRIKE ON A TENT CAMP KILLS DISPLACED FAMILIES
On Tuesday, Israel revealed the preliminary results of an probe into a deadly onslaught connected a structure camp sheltering displaced families successful the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah.
Sunday's onslaught killed astatine slightest 45 radical and caused wide destruction. Most of the victims were women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't separate betwixt the deaths of civilians and Hamas militants.
The military's main spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said a preliminary probe recovered that the Israeli munitions utilized that time successful efforts to destruct 2 Hamas militants were excessively tiny to beryllium the root of a occurrence that broke out.
Hagari said the demolition whitethorn person been caused by secondary explosions, perchance from Palestinian militants' weapons successful the area. Hamas did not respond to that explanation, but a subordinate of the militants' governmental bureau remarked Tuesday that Israel "believes that it is deceiving the world, with its mendacious assertion that it did not mean to termination and pain children and women, and its assertion to analyse its crimes."
The Israeli subject said successful a connection that the probe had been turned implicit to a fact-finding radical that operates independently extracurricular the army's concatenation of command. Those findings are past handed to the subject advocator general, who decides if determination should beryllium disciplinary measures. It's not wide however agelong the probe volition last.
SCORES OF CIVILIANS ARE SHOT DEAD AROUND A FLOUR CONVOY
In February, witnesses said Israeli troops fired connected a assemblage of Palestinians waiting for assistance successful Gaza City. At slightest 104 radical were killed and 760 were wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which described it arsenic a massacre.
Army officials initially said that dozens of Palestinians were killed successful a stampede erstwhile immense crowds tried to drawback supplies disconnected the pre-dawn convoy of 30 service trucks carrying flour toward hard-hit bluish Gaza. But the military's preliminary investigation, released a week later, appeared to backmost disconnected that, saying lone that the stampede caused "incidents of important harm to civilians."
The probe recovered that troops opened occurrence astatine immoderate who approached them and posed a menace to them and that a vessel besides fired informing shots to disperse "suspects." But it did not straight code however the radical were killed.
The subject said the lawsuit is besides being investigated by the fact-finding group.
AL-AHLI HOSPITAL EXPLOSION SETS OFF DEADLY INFERNO
An detonation successful October successful the courtyard of the Al-Ahli hospital, wherever thousands of Palestinians had sought structure oregon aesculapian treatment, acceptable disconnected an inferno that burned men, women and children alive.
There are inactive conflicting claims implicit what happened.
Officials successful Gaza rapidly said an Israeli airstrike had deed the hospital, sidesplitting astatine slightest 500 people. Images of the aftermath ignited protests crossed the region.
Within hours, Israeli officials said they had conducted an probe and determined that they had not been involved. They released unrecorded video, audio and different grounds that it said showed the blast was caused by a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad, different Palestinian militant group.
Islamic Jihad denied responsibility.
An AP investigation, on with U.S. and French quality assessments, concluded a misfired rocket apt caused the explosion.
A PALESTINIAN MAN IS SHOT WHILE WALKING WITH OTHERS
In January, the Israeli authorities announced it was investigating the decease of a Palestinian antheral who was fatally changeable portion walking with 4 others.
Video footage shows 1 of the men holding a achromatic emblem - the planetary awesome of surrender - and the others down him holding their hands successful the air. They past scramble backward arsenic respective shots ringing out.
In a 2nd clip, 1 of the men is lying connected the ground. The shooter is not disposable successful the video but earlier the shots are fired, the camera pans, showing what looks to beryllium an Israeli vessel positioned nearby. Ahmed Hijazi, a national writer who filmed the episode, told The Associated Press that an Israeli vessel fired connected the group.
The service said it conducted an in-depth probe and recovered the vessel did not occurrence astatine the men. It besides said it was "not imaginable to find with certainty" whether the antheral was killed by Israeli fire.
FOUR PALESTINIANS ARE SHOT ON A DIRT ROAD
On March 22, Israel's subject launched an probe aft footage emerged appearing to amusement the bombing of 5 Palestinians adjacent the confederate Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis.
Aerial footage circulating connected societal media shows 4 men walking on a ungraded roadworthy earlier a onslaught hits them, sidesplitting each 4 instantly. Another antheral farther on the roadworthy tries to tally distant earlier helium is deed and killed. The root of the footage remains unclear.
The subject said the probe had been turned implicit to the autarkic fact-finding group.
A GAZA SURGEON DIES IN AN ISRAELI PRISON
Famed Gaza surgeon Adnan al-Bursh died successful an Israeli situation aft helium was rounded up successful an apprehension raid connected Al Awda infirmary successful mid-April, according to the United Nations.
Bursh led the orthopedic section astatine Al-Shifa Hospital. At the clip of his apprehension successful December, helium was reportedly successful bully wellness and operating connected patients, the U.N. said.
But those who saw Bursh successful detention reported that helium looked depleted and bore signs of violence, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Israel's subject and constabulary did not respond to requests for comment.
Palestinian detainees who person returned from Israeli detention person reported beatings, harsh interrogations and neglect portion successful Israeli custody. Israel has denied the reports. Bursh was transferred to Israel's Ofer subject situation successful the West Bank, wherever helium died.
Israeli constabulary volition behaviour an autopsy of Bursh's assemblage with a doc from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel present, the radical said, noting it had filed a petition connected behalf of Bursh's family. It's unclear erstwhile the autopsy volition beryllium conducted.
Authorities person released nary accusation connected the origin of decease and it is unclear who is investigating. Israel's subject and constabulary referred questions to Israel's Prison Service, which referred questions backmost to the military.
The video successful the subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.
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