Ourzazate
23-11-04, 09:59
Monday 22 November 2004;
An Israeli military court has indicted an army officer accused by his own soldiers of emptying his weapon into a Palestinian schoolgirl who was already dead.
At the hearing on Monday, the officer was charged with two counts of illegal use of a weapon, two counts of inappropriate behaviour and exceeding his authority and one count of obstruction of justice, Israeli military sources said.
The indictments followed a military police investigation into an
incident on 5 October in which 13-year-old Iman al-Hams was shot dead by soldiers in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on suspicion she was carrying explosives in her school satchel.
According to a fellow soldier, the commander then fired into the girl's body several times. The doctor who examined the body said it was riddled with 20 bullets, including five in the head.
(Al Jazeera)
An Israeli military court has indicted an army officer accused by his own soldiers of emptying his weapon into a Palestinian schoolgirl who was already dead.
At the hearing on Monday, the officer was charged with two counts of illegal use of a weapon, two counts of inappropriate behaviour and exceeding his authority and one count of obstruction of justice, Israeli military sources said.
The indictments followed a military police investigation into an
incident on 5 October in which 13-year-old Iman al-Hams was shot dead by soldiers in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on suspicion she was carrying explosives in her school satchel.
According to a fellow soldier, the commander then fired into the girl's body several times. The doctor who examined the body said it was riddled with 20 bullets, including five in the head.
(Al Jazeera)