Israeli soldiers killed by civilians in the conflict in Gaza is facing prosecution
JERUSALEM, July 6 (Xinhua Hao Fang Yuan Zhenyu A) 6, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement to the military justice will be in the manslaughter prosecution of the conflict in the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian civilian soldiers.
2008 年 12 27 to 18 day in January 2009, Israel to stop Gaza militants to launch rockets to the ground, on the Gaza Strip launched a code-named "cast lead action" large-scale military combat, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed and 5,500 wounded.
statement said, the conflict in the Gaza Israeli soldiers in the conduct, with its military justice Board decided on several military officers and soldiers 采取 legal measures, a soldier Yin negligent homicide will be prosecuted. The soldier, a sniper in the Gaza conflict, there is evidence that he did not receive the relevant orders in the case, holding a white flag to a group of Palestinians who opened fire, killing one of them.
addition to the soldier faces prosecution, the military of Justice will also further investigate the other three soldiers, who were suspected of using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" to launch air strikes resulted in civilian casualties and so on.
"cast lead action", the United Nations decided to establish the investigation team on the conflict between Israel and Palestine to investigate the situation of human rights violations. Investigation team in September 2009 released a report that there is evidence that at the end of the Israeli army in Gaza since the beginning of the behavior of the conflict constitute war crimes, and may constitute crimes against humanity. Report that there is deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians, caused serious civilian casualties and forced civilians as "human shields" and other acts.
Israel has refused to accept the report and insisted that the Israeli army an internal investigation results show that the conflict in Gaza after the Israeli army does not exist in violation of international law, but while acknowledging that action occurred "Hen Shaoliang "intelligence or operational errors caused by the" unfortunate incident. "
