Family
Germans killed in Gaza? Public prosecutor’s office is investigating
Smoke rises after an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip. photo
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The family of six most recently lived in Dortmund. According to unconfirmed reports, she died in the Gaza war. The public prosecutor in Dortmund is now investigating.
The public prosecutor explained the proceedings by examining whether the family actually died and what circumstances led to this in this case. A brother of the father of the family stated that he and his wife and four children were killed in a rocket attack in the Gaza Strip. There is no confirmation of this yet. The public prosecutor’s office is now trying to gain new information about this.
The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office saw no initial suspicion of a crime within its jurisdiction. The spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said that she had therefore handed the case over to the Dortmund authorities because the family had last lived in the Ruhr area city. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” also recently reported that the family died in an Israeli attack at the end of October.
The Gaza war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7th in Israel near the border with Gaza. On the Israeli side, more than 1,200 people were killed. Israel responded with massive air strikes and a ground offensive. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, almost 20,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began.