Not guilty. The Israeli captain who put 17 bullets into a Palestinian schoolgirl
November 19, 2005“Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified”
“Defence says ‘confirming the kill’ standard practice”
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 yesterday.
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.
After the verdict, Iman’s father, Samir al-Hams, said the army never intended to hold the soldier accountable.
where is justice in this world??
Related tags: Palestine, war crime, human rights, IOF, IDF
thats sad..
Comment by Sabri Hakim — November 19, 2005 @ 9:45 PM
What justice?!?!?!!?
Don’t you know these are israelis? God’s own chosen people (all rights reserved), justice doesn’t count for anything here.
Comment by onzlo — November 19, 2005 @ 11:07 PM
The in-”justice” that this story demonstrates, is only but one example of the treatment that every Palestinian has received for years now.
So why would they serve “justice today???
May God rest her pure soul, and bless her family with solice and peace.
Comment by Omar — November 20, 2005 @ 6:57 AM
Amen Omar, Amen!
Comment by SugarCubes — November 20, 2005 @ 3:53 PM
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