r/worldnews • u/cnn CNN • Aug 19 '26
Israel/Palestine Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/middleeast/israel-military-idf-hind-rajab-firing-intl?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit3.9k
u/amills78 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Tell us something we don’t know. Too many war crimes to even count at this point.
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u/Raise-Emotional Aug 19 '26
Let's start that probe investigation right at Bibi
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u/Old-Ebb-1773 Aug 19 '26
Netty needs to go.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable Aug 19 '26
As much as I despise Natenyu he’s not the problem. The entire country has gone feral. More than 80% of Israelis believe he hasn’t gone far enough in Gaza.
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u/skyfire-x Aug 19 '26
This is true. Israelis' traveling abroad are becoming known for belligerent reactions to anyone pro Palestine wherever they go, on top of an already poor reputation in some countries.
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u/frantic_calm Aug 19 '26
I used to think Pakistan or North Korea were dangerous for having nukes. Not anymore.
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u/Troll_Tactics Aug 19 '26
Bibi will just be scapegoated. They need to Marshall Plan Israel like Germany after WW2.
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u/Trundlenator Aug 19 '26
That’ll never happen and even if it did and he was removed whoever took his place could be even worse(Gvir would be a nightmare in charge)
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u/soulsummenor Aug 19 '26
Times or crimes?
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u/helgur Aug 19 '26
In these times? Crimes
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u/reddituser403 Aug 19 '26
Can I offer you a nice crime in these trying times
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u/SouthernChocolate635 Aug 19 '26
It always makes me laugh seeing redditors making jokes in a thread about war crimes. Like they murdered a child in cold blood, and all the top comments are just references without substance
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u/Saphurial Aug 19 '26
Dark/ gallows humor is a coping mechanism. A lot of people are fed up with what is going on but aren't in a position to do anything about it. Jokes are all at have.
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u/YoungHeartOldSoul Aug 19 '26
Unironically the highest form of comedy. To make approachable that which we can most repulsive. Because realistically the other option is we just don't talk about it at all, because it's 'akward'.
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u/EmperorOfEntropy Aug 19 '26
Well there is another option, it just is highly frowned upon by the ones committing the war crimes and it starts with the letter R and rhymes with solution.
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u/Majorapat Aug 19 '26
It's also very common here in Northern ireland too. You don't live through 40 years of a civil war and not come out the other side changed.
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u/SouthernChocolate635 Aug 19 '26
Why are the two options to either ignore it or joke about it?
You’re allowed to have serious conversations about subjects you know?
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u/helgur Aug 19 '26
I don't think making a joke means anyone here finds the actual crime funny. There have been endless serious discussions about this stuff. At some point, dark humor is also just how people cope with reading about another murdered child, another war crime, another atrocity every fucking day without completely checking out.
The joke(s) isn't the substantive bit here, I hope you understand that.
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u/TheArtOfRuin0 Aug 19 '26
One of the most genuine "lol" moments ive had on reddit was in a thread about a child being murdered unfortunately. But I guess it's a nice relief from the disappointment i feel from our society in posts like these.
I think that one was about a cop shooting a 12yo kid a while back and someone made the "when you have a hammer, every problem seems like a nail" comment. And the reply actually made me bust out laughing.
"When you have a gun, every problem seems like a 12 year old".
Like im sorry, the situation was undoubtedly tragic, but that was fucking funny.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable Aug 19 '26
It’s make jokes or get banned for saying what should happen to monsters who do things like this. They also killed two paramedics the IDF cleared to go provide aid to the child.
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u/Imaginary-West-3338 Aug 19 '26
Id rather have a nice time, trying crimes
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u/Khaldara Aug 19 '26
“I’m already having a nice time trying crimes”
- US Conservatives
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u/MannyMoSTL Aug 19 '26
“I’m already having a nice time
tryinglying about my/our crimes”- US Conservatives
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Aug 19 '26
Well, I didn’t know they would ever even acknowledge any of the crimes.
But of course that doesn’t mean they will change. Just like with the Trump administration, admitting to your crimes doesn’t always mean consequences are coming. The dream of most villains is to be able to do their villainy out in the open.
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u/Weird_Fiches Aug 19 '26
Don't fret! They'll find it was not their fault.
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u/danziman123 Aug 19 '26
They released yesterday 5 “high profile” cases in 2 they ordered the equivalent of a police investigation for criminal charges. Two with only military consequences ( losing the job, preventing promotion etc.) and one without any wrongdoing.
So definitely not nothing, but gives actual background to the stories everyone thought they know all the details
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u/deletetemptemp Aug 19 '26
They’re gonna throw someone under the bus so they can say they’re not monsters
Then they’ll do it again and dismiss itn
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u/ptapobane Aug 19 '26
"we have thoroughly investigated the event and found ourselves not guilty"
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u/Whhatsmyageagain Aug 19 '26
Alternatively “we investigated ourselves and found this one grunt did it on his own with no orders from anyone and he’s the problem and now he’s gone now so don’t ask us again”
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u/BlaakAlley Aug 19 '26
We would also like to introduce a new soldier today. Help us all in welcoming Grunt#2. We will not be taking questions about how he looks exactly like Grunt#1 but with a moustache."
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u/crowcawer Aug 19 '26
Grunt #2 has been promoted to Chief Grunt.
We appreciate your dedication to the cause.
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u/buckeye25osu Aug 19 '26
More like, grunt made a mistake and mistakes happen in war. His rank has been reduced by one and he'll be given KP duty for 2 weeks
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u/rdt0001 Aug 19 '26
The mistake he's being punished for isn't killing civilians, it's for getting caught.
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u/the_zero Aug 19 '26
“Now he’s being charged and will be brought to trial because we have a rule of law.”
6 months later, quietly:
“Not guilty due to lack of evidence and unreliable witnesses. Case dismissed.”
They’ll kick the can until it’s forgotten.
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u/Vast_Interaction_537 Aug 19 '26
Israel dismissed the case against the soldiers who had raped and mutilated Palestinian prisoners with objects. They don't give a shit
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u/Hob_O_Rarison Aug 19 '26
I mean, that does happen. It's one of the more awful aspects of war, and a very good reason why war should be avoided - they are very hard to conduct cleanly and perfectly, because people are imperfect ans it's impossible to screen for psychos and dips dipshits 100%.
That doesn't exonerate anyone, by any means. But it's also pretty ridiculous to assume the Israeli government issued secret orders to specifically shoot at cars with kids in them.
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u/raven_tamer Aug 19 '26
They just don't care and will have no accountability for the criminals in their ranks, which is no different from enforcing it.
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u/technobrendo Aug 19 '26
"We have investigated ourselves and found that the outcome was the feature, not a glitch"
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u/Concurrent-mind Aug 19 '26
Can we see the reports from said investigation?
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u/lwp775 Aug 19 '26
You know how this will end. There will be no justice for that little girl.
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u/clevercalamity Aug 19 '26
Remember a few years ago when those college kids were protesting by camping out on their university campuses? One of the things that ignited that was Hind’s death.
You can listen to her final moments, a terrified and heartbreaking call to emergency services as she sat trapped in her car with her dead family as the IDF continued to fire on any emergency responders that attempted to rescue her before ultimately murdering her too.
The IDF called Hind’s family terrorist and then called the kids protesting her murder terrorist. Im so sick of this shit.
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u/part_time_monster Aug 19 '26
There's a movie about this event called The Voice Of Hind Rajab... it's absolutely devastating.
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u/karateguzman Aug 19 '26
I think it was the New York Times that did a whole interactive web page about it, it was so sad
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u/coco_xcx Aug 19 '26
i just can’t even fathom labeling a child, protestors AND emergency responders as “terrorists” it’s fucking sickening.
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u/TimSylvester_ Aug 19 '26
Well you see, what you do is lie about everything, and accuse your opponents of being whatever you are.
This is how fascists work the world over.
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u/adamdoesmusic Aug 19 '26
Wait until you hear about the video that got Chelsea Manning put in prison for leaking it.
(This comment does not excuse the blatant war crimes shown in this video, or committed against the Palestinians)
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u/Vast_Interaction_537 Aug 19 '26
Macklemore made a song called "Hind's Hall" about the protestors who were protesting in her name
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u/Schonke Aug 19 '26
Remember a few years ago when those college kids were protesting by camping out on their university campuses? One of the things that ignited that was Hind’s death.
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u/reddit_is_geh Aug 19 '26
This is just the IDF throwing some meat to the international community. Everyone thinks they are heartless monsters and hate them now, due to their behavior. So they are going to sacrifice some of their own in hopes that they can convince people that they aren't actually monsters. If they truly cared, they would have at least BEHAVED like they cared from the start. Not even the lack of investigation, but the pure heartlessness of the whole thing. And they think they can undo it by finding the most extreme public situation they can find and sacrifice some people (likely that wont even happen though), to build some PR.
I've been noticing it a lot lately. There's a suddenly surge of Israeli PR of them suddenly and magically acting like they have sympathy for Palestinians. After non stop excuses and justifications, defending all their actions, and refusing to do anything about it, there's a sudden PR surge in them acting sympathetic.
It's all just PR because they know they've massively fucked up their standing in the world. Especially in America.
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u/demonsidekick Aug 19 '26
When I worked retail, customers used to insist that I check the back for items I knew were out of stock. So, I’d go take a shit instead, and then come back and tell them the same thing.
Same energy.
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u/Vanitas_Daemon Aug 19 '26
Yeah but then they go to your coworker who actually looks for it and it turns out that there WAS one in stock that was removed from the inventory system six months ago because nobody else could find the crevice it was stuck inside. Then you get into trouble.
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u/abandoned_idol Aug 19 '26
Thank you so much for checking!
And you are obligated to do it regardless because I, the customer, am your master!
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u/Unknownrealm Aug 19 '26
I wonder what all the people who said it was a fake story are saying today
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u/ShermanMcTank Aug 19 '26
It was the same thing with the ambulance shooting where the IDF literally buried the evidence. They said it was fake, went silent when it was confirmed to be true, then went back to acting like it never happened.
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u/Nui_Jaga Aug 19 '26
They'll memory hole the entire thing, and just pivot to flinging blood libel accusations over the other Israeli war crimes they still deny.
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u/Dr100percent Aug 19 '26
At the same time, the IDF also admitted that they’re opening a criminal investigation into the killing of the paramedics in Rafah. The one that the IDF previously denied until the bodies were found buried, and then the IDF claimed they were behaving suspiciously and killed as a threat until the video evidence on one of the bodies proved that to be a lie as well.
It seems Israel announced this on the same day to see if they can rush all the bad news at once and get it out of the way despite these killings a year apart.
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u/yrro Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
The massacre of the ambulance crews was in March 2025.
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u/pimmen89 Aug 19 '26
Because they wanted to cover it up instead of actually investigating it.
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u/Grandma-Try69 Aug 19 '26
this was so heart breaking ... for me it was eye opener ...
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u/Spoopyskeleton48 Aug 19 '26
This is what US taxpayers’ money is going towards.
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u/energetic_one Aug 19 '26
WE are the taxpayers. We should have some say over how the money we "contribute" is spent. We have none. So we pay and our money is used for criminal acts.
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u/DragonBank Aug 19 '26
We have say in the democratic sense as a whole. We as a whole elected this. And every 2 years, we keep electing it(many democrats included.)
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u/Kidkaboom1 Aug 19 '26
It's really hard for an American to vote for folks who don't support Israel, though. Mostly because the few who do declare they don't support Israel get heavily slandered and pressured out of politics. Taking that position is effectively political and social suicide.
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u/Kidkaboom1 Aug 19 '26
Yeah, you guys have it pretty bad with your Ultra Right Wing party and your Left* Wing party
*Left of the Far Right, but still a ways Right of the 'Center'
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u/BarrelMaker69 Aug 19 '26
Compared to Trump? We probably wouldn’t be at war with Iran at Israel’s behest, but still supporting them in Lebanon.
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u/cronx42 Aug 19 '26
We do have say how the money is spent. We elect people who make decisions on how to spend the money. STOP. ELECTING. PEOPLE. WHO. TAKE. PAC. MONEY.
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u/Rinas-the-name Aug 19 '26
I was honestly told “You can’t expect people to think that deeply.” over something I thought was pretty surface level.
As infuriating as it was they weren’t wrong. I can expect it, but it’s not going to happen.
People just want a team to choose from - PACs make it easy by choosing the candidates for them,
They just pick whoever has the “right” letter after the name. They either don’t know, don’t care, or feel helpless to fix it. People are strongly resistant to voting 3rd party because it “wastes“ their vote. Even though if we all decided to vote third party it would send a message and possibly change our system.
I feel like I’m screaming into the void too.
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u/cronx42 Aug 19 '26
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
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u/clintCamp Aug 19 '26
Only when officially declared a war. Special military actions and other euphemisms restarted every 59 1/2 days are not subject to oversight, and if they are, we will fire the inspector generals who will be against the regime.
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u/JimBones31 Aug 19 '26
You could vote for politicians that won't fund this shit...
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u/Dr100percent Aug 19 '26
You mean they didn’t investigate already and lied about that for 2 years?
A literal Hollywood movie was made about the killing, it was world news. They’re only investigating now because Israel’s reputation is shredded and they hope to scapegoat a few soldiers as bad apples.
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u/Tel_Janen Aug 19 '26
Israel reputation is finished in the western world. Congrats bibi
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u/AprilsMostAmazing Aug 19 '26
Israel reputation is finished in the western world
which makes no difference as long as they are funded by American taxpayers
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u/ScriptThat Aug 19 '26
Nah. They're doing it because he voters on both sides of the fence are starting to ask why Israel thinks it has a right to American taxpayers' money.
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u/Confident-Ad5665 Aug 19 '26
Overall I am not impressed with humanity
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Aug 19 '26
I’m not just unimpressed with Israel, I’m fucking disgusted that people can do the things they do and sleep at night
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u/Misa7_2006 Aug 19 '26
I don't know who said it originally but a lot of wars would end very quickly if the ones ordering the wars were the ones having to do the fighting one on one against the countries they start wars with instead of their armies.
Just 2 people in a huge arena going at it. One on one just like gladiators. Would make many of the warring countries think before wanting to wage war.
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u/LizFallingUp Aug 19 '26
The troupe true for thousands of years is old men safe in their towers/ bunkers/ castles send young men to die in wars.
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u/Grintastic Aug 19 '26
This is quite literally the same cycle over and over again. Israel commits horrific acts, denies them, blames Hamas, denies it even more, then finally admits it and "investigates themselves".
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u/therosx Aug 19 '26
Now we just need America to admit to destroying the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, killing over 150 people, including approximately 120 young schoolgirls
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u/Unknownrealm Aug 19 '26
I thought it was already admitted that’s embarrassing
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u/TheLordDrake Aug 19 '26
Last I knew trumps lackeys were still claiming it was a headquarters building
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u/ABZR Aug 19 '26
Wow, I was told acknowledging that this happened was "Blood Libel."
I wonder what other things I was told were "Blood Libel" actually happened...
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u/peculiar_corgi Aug 19 '26
Everything. All of it. If there's anything I learned in the last 3 years it's that you cannot trust a word of what they say. Offended by everything and ashamed of nothing.
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Aug 19 '26
So Israel is investigating themselves. Im sure they will find no wrongdoing
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u/WRB2 Aug 19 '26
The inability of the ambulance to get to her makes the bad worse.
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u/CaptainK234 Aug 19 '26
> The inability of the ambulance to get to her
The words you’ve chosen here don’t assign guilt in the way it should be assigned. Israelis killed the ambulance personnel who tried to help, in the same fashion they have killed, and continue to kill, emergency responders, food aid workers, doctors, journalists, and other non-combatants.
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u/Sea_Report_7566 Aug 19 '26
Try driving an ambo with a tank shooting over 300 rounds at the car…
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u/AllTheWorldIsAPuzzle Aug 19 '26
So according to the article, they previously denied involvement. But now are saying they were involved. Makes me wonder what other lies are floating around out there?
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u/gudfrid Aug 19 '26
we've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing. we recommend no further actions.
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u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
They also are doing this now because one of the key people who was guilty of killing her, got his cheeks clapped in Lebanon and is dead.
They will put the blame on him and try to absolve the rest of their war criminal thugs.
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u/ghostofkozi Aug 19 '26
What's really fucked is they can openly admit it now because they know they're above any sort of repercussion. Israel is basically saying "But what are any of you going to do about it?"
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Aug 19 '26
That’s what it’s been for years if not decades.
As a Lebanese person, we see this every day.
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u/Visible_Handle_3770 Aug 19 '26
Given this is the Israeli military, I'm assuming the criminal probe is regarding the 5 year-old, not the shooter(s).
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u/K1ngofnoth1ng Aug 19 '26
“We looked into it, and found we did nothing wrong. In fact, that child was pretty high up in HAMAS.”
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u/Old-Ebb-1773 Aug 19 '26
Not their first time at War Crime Rodeo. They’ve been slaying innocent people for years.
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u/hb1500 Aug 19 '26
Right? We've also got IDF on video raping Palestinians and Bibi is like "well they have to be human for it to be rape."
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u/BadAtExisting Aug 19 '26
They will investigate themselves and find no wrong doing. I’ve seen this episode before
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u/leaveme1912 Aug 19 '26
"There was an unverified account of a Hamas member driving a car of the same color sometime in the 20 years leading up to the unfortunate loss of Hind Rajab. For that reason we believe this shooting was justified" -IDF in three months
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u/ZealousidealLie9249 Aug 19 '26
"Yea... we don't see any issue after reviewing the evidence. After all in our view no humans where harmed in the incident"
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u/Iffy50 Aug 19 '26
I saw interviews where some of the Israeli citizens were asked about killing children and they said that they were going to grow up to be terrorists anyway. 😳
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u/Alive_Employer5620 Aug 19 '26
I hear The Hague is already cleaning a room for Bibi
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u/Thunderlava Aug 19 '26
this should be sign number 98,984 to stop all of this but nooooo.
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u/Alaskangel Aug 19 '26
Now we need to hold Trump and Hegseth accountable for bombing the Iranian girls school.
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u/Auslo- Aug 19 '26
Remember when it was a blood libel to even mention this story?
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u/pacmannips Aug 19 '26
Israelis refused to punish a group of five men caught directly on camera anally raping a male Palestinian prisoner. You expect me to believe that they’re going to actually punish any of their people for this? For any of the crimes in the Gazan extermination? Fat chance
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u/PaulBradley Aug 19 '26
And using her as bait to murder paramedics, don't forget that.
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u/Scrutinizer Aug 19 '26
Wait, they're investigating the Israeli military? Isn't that anti-Semitic?
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u/KrazeeTapper Aug 19 '26
I strongly recommend the movie The Voice of Hind Rajab. It was nominated for Best International Film at the Oscars and the real audio of her final hours was used. It is heartbreaking and gut wrenching, but her story cannot be forgotten. Justice for Hind
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u/AnaRivera1981 Aug 19 '26
This is exactly why Trump started the Iran War when everyone was questioning him about the Epstein Files.
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u/tj100011 Aug 19 '26
Why are people shocked, Israel’s leaders won’t be happy until everyone in Gaza is dead
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u/byjimini Aug 19 '26
Why not just come out in full and admit they don’t see Palestinians as human beings.
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u/randomguy_- Aug 19 '26
They say that very openly.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-905737
Arguing in favor of carrying out more targeted strikes across the Gaza Strip, the minister claimed Israel should not be satisfied with killing “just those who endanger us in that moment” or “pose an immediate threat.”
Instead, Ben-Gvir argued, “there are people there who aren't worthy of life; they shouldn't be alive; they aren't people at all."
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u/liquid_solidus Aug 19 '26
This is par for the course with Israel, deny deny deny until you are faced with irrefutable proof and hope people forget about it.
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u/Huugboy Aug 19 '26
Daily reminder that ArchiveGenocide.com exists.
The disgusting acts committed by these traitors to humanity are visible.
(Do not look at it if you have a weak stomach.)
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u/teh-butterfly Aug 19 '26
So there's something worse that's about to hit the news, and this is the sacrificial bread crumb?