22 indictments filed against Nokhba terrorists involved in Nir Oz massacre

The Southern District Attorney's Office informed the Attorney General that it had drafted indictments against 22 terrorists who participated in the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz.

The indictments were made possible thanks to new materials obtained in recent months by Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet from inside the Gaza Strip. The indictments against the terrorists of the October 7 massacre are unprecedented in its scope. The State Attorney's Office has also asked the Attorney General to promote nine new bills for the Noah trials, which are now being exposed for the first time.

The United States is also a partner in the efforts, and the law enforcement system has sent a message to the Americans not to get ahead of Israel and to file indictments against it. The State Attorney's Office intends to file one indictment against all the hundreds of terrorists, and to position it as a historic event.

The huge indictment campaign against the participants in the massacre is being conducted in the Southern District of the State Attorney's Office by a small team of prosecutors. According to a security source, the Shin Bet attaches great importance to this and the organization has acted and continues to work to bring incriminating material from anywhere in the Gaza Strip that the IDF entered and was not there before.

Many of the evidence, documents, and visual materials were obtained thanks to the expansion of the fighting before the cease-fire and the seizure of media materials and computers in Gaza. After they are collected from the Gaza Strip, Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet work on sorting through the mountains of materials and they pass the evidence on to the police, who transfer it to the State Attorney's Office. A police source said, "There are detained terrorists whom the Shin Bet knew how to tell us that as soon as they entered a certain area in Gaza, such as Rafah, 'we will bring you the evidence about them from there' – and he did. I don't remember an incident like this in which a criminal investigation and the filing of indictments were so influenced by the IDF's active combat progress."

In Israel, about 300 terrorists are detained who are defined as having been involved in the massacre to varying degrees. Some of them were arrested inside Israel around October 7, and others were arrested later as IDF forces advanced during the fighting in Gaza. As far as the political echelon is concerned, these are terrorists who are not intended to be released in kidnapped deals, and they are the target of the law enforcement system in carrying out the indictments. There is a group of them whose members did not participate in the massacre but held hostages in the Gaza Strip, and it has not yet been decided whether they will also be included in the indictment operation or whether they will be designated for the release of hostages.