On 29 January 2009 Andreu opened preliminary investigations into claims that a bomb attack on
Gaza in 2002 warranted the prosecution of the former
Israeli defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the former defence chief-of-staff
Moshe Ya'alon, the former air force chief
Dan Halutz, and four others, for
crimes against humanity. He has been investigating the deaths of 15
Palestinians terrorists, part of them civilians, who died when the
Israeli air force bombed a house in
Gaza City. The attack killed a leader of the military wing of the Islamist movement
Hamas,
Salah Shehade, along with 14 civilians, mainly children, and wounded some dozens of civilians, according to the complaint. ==Rwandan genocide==