Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 21.08.2026
The Zionist army reported that there were only five incidents in which the army killed civilians in Gaza. It is clear that this criminal army is not interested in investigating the truth and is only trying to clear its name. This attempt is doomed to failure. The policy of fire in the war has exposed Israel as a monster and will not be able to clear its name.
Even in the five cases in which Israel admits no heavy penalties were imposed for murder. After the Military Police’s investigations into the killing of the girl Hind Rajab and the killing of medical workers in Rafah, which the military announced yesterday, the military investigative and prosecution systems showed helplessness throughout the war, and this is also true in the Sde Yemen affair. It seems that in the public mood in Israel today, there is no chance of reaching the truth and prosecuting criminals who committed crimes in uniform.
In this way, Israel is like the United States, which destroyed many Native American villages with all their inhabitants, and the perpetrators of these crimes were considered heroes.
The military’s statement refers to five killings during the war that were under duress – all of which were widely reported in the international media and exposed the lie that Israel is a democratic state. One can point to the reasons why these incidents have become dramatic: in three of them, the victims were foreign aid workers or local workers of an international aid organization, and the other two were resonant because they were so widely documented.
A UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of deliberately harming children in the Gaza Strip.
In the incident in which Hind Rajab was killed, a long and heartbreaking phone call between the five-year-old girl and her mother and rescuers, which was interrupted by a barrage of gunfire. In the case of the killing of the paramedics, a video was released that proved beyond any doubt that the IDF lied about the circumstances of their deaths. But throughout the war, hundreds of incidents in which tens of thousands of people were killed, most of which were documented, and where there is almost no disagreement about the facts, were not addressed in the international and Israeli media, and did not cause the monstrous army to issue special announcements about the opening of a criminal investigation.
As far as is known, to date no soldier or officer has been tried or punished for unjustified harm to Palestinians during the war in Gaza. On the sixth day of the October 7 war, Israeli Air Force aircraft bombed a building in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Thirty-nine people were killed in the attack, all members of the Shihab family. It was the first incident in which dozens of family members were killed in a single incident. He was followed by many. According to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is accepted by almost all international organizations and governments around the world, more than 2,000 Gazan families have been completely wiped out of the population register due to IDF attacks.
In October 2024, the Zionist army murdered 132 members of one family in Beit Lahiya. The youngest of the dead was a six-week-old baby, the oldest was 79 years old. In March 2025, the Zionist army ended the ceasefire in a massive night offensive that resulted in nearly 300 women and children killed. In the months that followed, more than 2,000 people would be killed by gunfire at aid seekers near aid centers set up by Israel itself or near food trucks.
The Zionist army’s announcement yesterday is a tiny part of the thousands in which elderly civilians, women and children were injured. The obvious conclusion from this is that the State of Israel is not interested in investigating the truth, in imposing discipline on the army in accordance with the laws of war in Israeli and international law. It just wants to try to clear its name by providing ammunition of lies to the Israeli media spokesmen. This attempt is doomed to failure. The Zionist army’s policy of fire in the Gaza war exposed the character of the Zionist state and the Zionist public and will be remembered long after the Zionist monster will die.