The Justice Ministry has sent documents related to the assassination of senior Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh to Spain in an attempt to end a probe into the killing. A Spanish judge ordered the probe last week, saying there was reason to suspect Israel of war crimes in the assassination, which killed Shehadeh, his wife and daughter, and 12 others.

Those named in the probe include senior Israeli officials such as Ministers Avi Dichter and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and former IDF Chiefs of Staff Moshe Yaalon and Dan Halutz. Israeli leaders said last week that they would provide IDF officers accused of crimes for carrying out state orders with whatever assistance they needed.