Verify found 254 incidents in which the Israel Defense Forces said it was investigating alleged killings or injuries, but no public outcome had been disclosed. The cases span Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and Israel, with some dating back to late 2023 and stretching through 19 August 2026.
The finding matters because it shows how often military probes can stay outside public view even after serious allegations. Verify said it checked hundreds of incidents after combing through more than 60,000 news reports, then compared those cases with published outcomes on the IDF website.
Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank
Verify identified 300 cases in which the IDF said it was looking into alleged harm, but only 28 had outcomes published on the IDF website. For 18 incidents, Verify said it was unclear whether the investigation had ended, and Verify received information from the IDF on only two cases after repeated approaches.
Of the 254 incidents with no public outcome, 158 were in Gaza, 48 were in the West Bank, 32 were in Lebanon and 16 were in Israel or in IDF detention. More than 200 of the incidents involved at least one reported death, so the unresolved files are not limited to injury claims.
Hind Rajab and August 2026
In August 2026, the IDF published a rare report on internal probes into five incidents in Gaza. The report included the killing of Hind Rajab and the killing of 15 Palestinian Red Crescent emergency workers, both of which the IDF said were escalated to criminal investigations.
In the same August report, the IDF said it did not find a basis for or reasonable suspicion to begin a criminal investigation in three other cases. Those cases involved the killings of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in an air strike and four Médecins Sans Frontières aid workers in two separate Gaza attacks.
IDF review files
The IDF said: “The IDF takes every allegation or report raising concerns about conduct that may be inconsistent with the law or IDF directives with the utmost seriousness,” The IDF also said its military investigation results are not routinely made public. The ICRC says investigations into potential violations of international humanitarian law should be as transparent as possible.
What Verify left exposed is the gap between internal review and public resolution. The unresolved 254 cases cover four places, include incidents from 7 October 2023 through 19 August 2026, and leave readers with a narrow operational question: which of the cases that the IDF says it is examining will ever move from internal file to public result.
