A report by investigative outlet Drop Site says the Israeli regime filed only three Gaza-related indictments from October 2023 through March 2025.
The findings draw on six freedom-of-information responses obtained by Israeli rights group Yesh Din between January 2024 and April 2025.
Only one case led to a conviction, while two remain unresolved.
The report highlights the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, six relatives and two rescue workers in Gaza City on January 29, 2024.
The regime initially announced an investigation, then claimed its forces were not present in the area, despite satellite evidence contradicting that claim.
The case was routed to the General Staff Fact-Finding Assessment mechanism, but no additional findings were released and no one was charged.
Drop Site describes the Israeli regime’s military justice system as slow, opaque and built to protect soldiers from accountability.
“We’re not surprised at all by the low number of indictments,” said Yesh Din data coordinator Noa Cohen.
She said the rare indictments that do emerge are “anecdotes” and usually stem from “a random action or a coincidence or a specific pressure.”
As of August 15, 2024, the military had logged 95 formal complaints about Gaza incidents, including cases referencing “hundreds of incidents.”
A total of 1,456 “exceptional incidents” were forwarded to the fact-finding mechanism.
Only 11 were completed, while most remained indefinitely “under review.”
By the same date, the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division had opened 60 investigations and completed 12.
Those efforts resulted in only one indictment: a reservist sentenced to seven months for beating blindfolded Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman detention site.
The two other indictments, filed in February and March 2025, involve a soldier accused of looting and five soldiers charged with torturing a handcuffed Palestinian detainee in an incident captured by surveillance cameras.
The report notes that regime soldiers uploaded thousands of videos and photos showing apparent abuses, including shootings of unarmed civilians, mistreatment of detainees, looting and arson.
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit compiled more than 2,500 such posts, but they produced “next to nothing” in terms of accountability.
Anadolu has published two books — The Evidence and Witness — documenting war crimes committed in Gaza since October 2023.
Many mass-casualty strikes, attacks on hospitals and destruction of civilian infrastructure are never investigated, as Israeli doctrine labels them “lawful combat operations.”
Under the laws of war, such sites — hospitals, houses of worship, civilian homes — are protected and should not be targeted.
All have been attacked in the regime’s Gaza campaign.
Leaked documents from the justice ministry, published by DDOSecrets, show authorities use internal reviews to block foreign courts by asserting domestic processing of incidents, even when no criminal steps are taken.
This strategy relies on complementarity, which limits international jurisdiction when a state claims to conduct its own investigations.
Israeli rights groups Yesh Din and B’Tselem stopped cooperating with military investigations after the 2014 assault on Gaza.
Both say the system is structurally incapable of prosecuting regime soldiers or commanders.
A Yesh Din review of three major assaults found that of 664 incidents, 542 were closed without any criminal investigation and only one led to indictment.
A separate review by Action on Armed Violence found that 88% of the 52 cases the regime said it would investigate between October 2023 and June 2025 were closed without findings or left unresolved.
Public resistance inside Israel to even minimal accountability has escalated.
After five soldiers were indicted for the filmed gang rape of a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman, protests formed to defend the accused.
Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned, was later arrested, and was accused by defense minister Israel Katz of spreading a “blood libel.”
According to Yesh Din’s Cohen, impunity that long existed “in practice” has become “a concrete demand.”
“The goal is to give the soldiers immunity, not to find those responsible,” she said.
Since October 2023, the Israeli regime’s attacks in Gaza have killed more than 69,000 people, most of them women and children.
More than 170,700 others have been injured.
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant for atrocities committed in Gaza.