The Justice Department launched a team in December 2023 to look into allegations of war crimes committed during Russia’s war in Ukraine. The team isn’t limited to looking only at that conflict, though — but in the months since the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the DOJ has been nearly silent on the topic of possible war crimes there.

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