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Saturday, 21 November 2015

Army officer acquitted after shooting 13 year old girl

"An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court ..."

"The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago."

"The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was `scared to death`, made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died..."

"The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2

1 comment:

  1. Only goes to prove Dictatorship and ethnic cleansing and the weekness of so called USA Master Power Race . No involvement by USA that supplied the weapon most like . inhumane monsters

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