Report: Most cases of IDF abuse of Palestinians don't lead to charges

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Research conducted by human rights organization Yesh Din finds only 6 percent of investigations against soldiers accused of harming Palestinian civilians resulted in indictments in last seven years; military courts fail to hand severe sentences for offenses

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3628736,00.html

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"Only six percent of investigations against IDF soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinians in the last seven years led to indictments, a report published by the Yesh Din human rights organization revealed on Wednesday.

According to the group, thousands of Palestinian civilians who were not involved in operations against the IDF were killed from the beginning of the second intifada and until 2007. However, only very few cases resulted in the filing of charges against the soldiers implicated with those deaths.

Until today military courts convicted only five soldiers for the deaths of four civilians: Three Palestinians and one British citizen.

The report is based on data provided by the army, according to which of the 1,264 investigations launched by the military police since 2000, only 78 led to indictments against one soldier or more."

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"Lior Yavne, research director at Yesh Din and the author of the report, said: "A soldier who chooses to beat up a handcuffed Palestinian, or who unnecessarily shoots an unarmed civilian, knows that the chances of him facing trial or even investigated are slim.

"The report illustrates how the IDF leaves the population of the occupied territories exposed to its soldiers' arbitrariness."


Yesh Din

[Violet_Crumble]

1. Thanks for posting the link to Yesh Din...

There's a copy of the report there. I'll read it at work tomorrow coz this computer's having a go-slow when it comes to downloading pdfs....

[Scurrilous]

2. Hi Violet.

:thumbsup:

[Violet_Crumble]

3. Heya Scurri!

:hi:

[LeftishBrit]

4. That is wrong.

There needs to be a real crackdown on this sort of thing.