Three former servicemen were killed while protecting a food mission for starving Palestinians, but Britain has remained silent as Israel closes the case without releasing the evidence

The families of three British former servicemen who travelled to Gaza to protect a World Central Kitchen food mission during Israel’s siege and starvation of more than two million civilians may now never see anyone brought to justice after the Israeli military closed its investigation into their killings without bringing charges.

For their families, the killings were not an administrative mistake that could be closed with a military press notice. Kirby’s relatives described his death as murder and demanded that the evidence be examined by an independent body and, if appropriate, a court. No Israeli court will now hear the case because the military prosecution has decided that the conduct of the officers who tracked and struck the three vehicles does not even warrant a criminal investigation.