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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Thousands attended funerals Saturday of three Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in a border protest a day earlier, including an 11-year-old, a 17-year-old and a man on crutches.
More than 140 Palestinians, most of them unarmed, have been killed and several thousand wounded by Israeli troops since March in such protests led by Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the latest deaths brought to 18 the number of minors, age 18 and under, killed in the past four months.
Human rights groups have accused Israel of the unlawful use of lethal force against the protesters. Israel says it is defending its border and accuses Hamas, a group sworn to its destruction, of using the protests as cover for attempts to breach the border fence and attack civilians and soldiers.
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Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday that Moumin al-Hams, 17, was shot in the chest in the protest on Friday along the fence that separates Gaza and Israel.
Images shared on social media by his friends and relatives show him venturing toward the fence, setting tires ablaze and pushing them toward Israeli forces.
Funerals were also held Saturday for Majdi al-Satari, 11, whose age was previously announced as 14, and for Ghazi Abu Mustafa, 43.
The Health Ministry initially gave Majdi's age as 14. On Saturday, it said his age was 12. A relative said the boy had been born Oct. 3, 2006, meaning he was 11 when he was killed. Al-Mezan, a Gaza-based rights groups, confirmed Majdi's age as 11.
Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a witness, said that on Friday protesters were trying to cut razor wire about 50 yards away from the actual fence. He said Majdi was watching from about 100 meters away. "There were two gunshots from a sniper. One hit one of those cutting the wire in the leg and the other gunshot hit the boy in his head," he said.
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Women gathered under the corrugated zinc roofing of the al-Satari's family's house for the funeral.
Majdi's mother, Kholoud, wearing a black robe and face veil, sat on a mattress.
"I don't know what he did to them (the Israeli soldiers)," she said as she burst in tears. She added that his family tried to prevent him from going to the protests and on one occasion tried to lock him indoors. "It's his fate," she sighed.
"He is a child. He had no bullets or weapons," said the boy's grandmother, identified as Umm Ramzi. "He was standing like all children watching. They shot him from afar. Isn't he a child? Why are they targeting children?"
In a nearby town, resident Hassan Najjar said he witnessed the shooting of 43-year-old Abu Mustafa.
He said soldiers shot at a group of Palestinians who rushed to the border and a bullet hit the man sitting about 250 meters away. He said the man had sustained leg wounds at a previous protest and was still using crutches.
Hamas has led border protests aimed in part at drawing attention to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
The demonstrations have been fueled in large part by pervasive despair caused by the blockade which has caused widespread economic hardship.
Last week a Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier. Another soldier was wounded by Palestinian fire on Wednesday.
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Associated Press writer Fares Akram reported from Amman, Jordan. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a witness, said that on Friday protesters were trying to cut razor wire about 50 yards away from the actual fence. He said Majdi was watching from about 100 meters away. "There were two gunshots from a sniper. One hit one of those cutting the wire in the leg and the other gunshot hit the boy in his head," he said.
Судя по всему целились в голову несчастному (и попали!), ну если конечно репортёр не врёт... _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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One (L) of the five Israeli soldiers from the Kfir Brigade who were arrested for allegedly beating two Palestinian suspects in their custody arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)
One (L) of the five Israeli soldiers from the Kfir Brigade who were arrested for allegedly beating two Palestinian suspects in their custody arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)
Five IDF soldiers, including a company commander and a squad commander, are likely to be charged with serious crimes and face lengthy prison terms for allegedly beating Palestinian detainees, according to a report Tuesday night.
The two Palestinian suspects were arrested last week in the Ramallah area as part of the army’s efforts to locate a terrorist who opened fire at a bus stop outside the nearby Givat Assaf outpost in December 2018, killing two soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion and seriously injuring a third member of the unit and a civilian woman.
The five servicemen are suspected of beating the two Palestinian detainees as a form of revenge for their fallen comrades.
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The IDF has refused to comment on the exact date of the arrest and alleged beating.
The five serve in the Kfir Brigade’s religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
All the soldiers have been remanded in custody until Sunday, according to the Ynet news site.
Israeli soldiers conduct raids in West Bank village of Kobar on December 31, 2018, in search of Palestinian terrorist who committed deadly shooting attack outside the Givat Assaf outpost earlier in the month. (Israel Defense Forces)
An investigation by the military’s criminal investigation division has revealed that one of the soldiers filmed part of the incident, the report said. The footage reportedly shows servicemen kicking and punching the Palestinian suspects, causing them injuries.
Quoting anonymous sources, the report added that the impending indictment is expected to charge the troops with serious violence and abuse offenses, and that they are likely to serve a significant sentence behind bars.
The military was said to be leaning toward filing charges also against a commander who didn’t actively participate in the violence, but allegedly did nothing to stop it.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit responded to the report by saying the investigation was ongoing and that its conclusions would be handed to the Military Advocate General.
Illustrative: Soldiers in the IDF’s ultra-Orthodox ‘Netzah Yehuda’ unit at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley, August 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
Soldiers in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which operates mostly in the West Bank, have been at the center of several controversies connected to right-wing extremists and Palestinians, especially of late.
Last month, two members of the battalion were dismissed from duty after they fought with a group of Border Police officers who had arrested civilian friends of theirs for throwing rocks at Palestinian homes in Ramallah.
Also in December, the Military Police launched an investigation into the actions of Netzah Yehuda soldiers who shot dead an East Jerusalem man they said tried to ram them with his car at a West Bank checkpoint. An initial investigation into the incident found that no such ramming attempt had occurred.
In 2016, a soldier from the battalion was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for taking part in what was called the “hate wedding,” in which extremists celebrated the murder of a Palestinian toddler several months earlier.
Soldiers from the battalion have also been convicted in the past of torturing and abusing Palestinian prisoners.
The battalion was created so that ultra-Orthodox and other religious soldiers can serve without feeling they are compromising their beliefs. The soldiers do not interact with female troops to the same extent as other servicemen and are given additional time for prayer and study. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
The Israeli military on said Sunday that it plans to indict five soldiers suspected of beating two Palestinian detainees last month, seriously injuring them.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the soldiers are believed to have attacked the two suspects “when they were handcuffed and blindfolded.” The two had been arrested in a raid conducted as part of a search for a terrorist who had killed two of the servicemen’s comrades in a shooting attack outside the Givat Assaf outpost in the central West Bank.
The IDF said the Palestinian detainees sustained serious injuries in the attack.
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The soldiers are believed to have beaten the two Palestinian men, who were suspected of aiding the terrorist in his escape, as a form of revenge for the attack that killed their comrades.
In addition to being suspected of aggravated abuse and aggravated assault, some of them are expected to be charged with obstruction of justice.
The obstruction charge appears to be tied to attempts to hide footage filmed by one of the soldiers, which reportedly shows the servicemen kicking and punching the Palestinian suspects.
The offenses can carry heavy prison sentences if the soldiers are found guilty.
The soldiers’ platoon commander was also arrested in connection with the alleged abuse. He is not suspected of actively taking part in the beatings, but is believed to have failed to stop them. His case is being handled separately, and he was scheduled to appear before a judge later on Sunday.
When military prosecutors file their indictment on Sunday, they will also request the soldiers be kept in jail through the end of the trial, the army said.
The soldiers involved all serve in the Kfir Brigade’s religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
Soldiers in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which operates in the West Bank, have been at the center of several controversies connected to right-wing extremists and Palestinians, especially of late.
Last month, two members of the battalion were dismissed from duty after they fought with a group of Border Police officers who had arrested civilian friends of theirs for throwing rocks at Palestinian homes in Ramallah.
Also in December, the Military Police launched an investigation into the actions of Netzah Yehuda soldiers who shot dead an East Jerusalem man they said tried to ram them with his car at a West Bank checkpoint. An initial investigation into the incident found that no such ramming attempt had occurred.
In 2016, a soldier from the battalion was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for taking part in what was called the “hate wedding,” in which extremists celebrated the murder of a Palestinian toddler several months earlier.
Soldiers from the battalion have also been convicted in the past of torturing and abusing Palestinian prisoners.
The battalion was created so that ultra-Orthodox and other religious soldiers can serve without feeling they are compromising their beliefs. The soldiers do not interact with female troops to the same extent as other servicemen and are given additional time for prayer and study. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Military prosecutors filed indictments on Thursday against five soldiers suspected of beating two Palestinian detainees earlier this month, seriously injuring them, as a form of revenge for a terror attack that killed two of their comrades.
The five soldiers are accused of “striking the Palestinians with slaps, punches and bludgeons while they were handcuffed and blindfolded, causing them serious injuries,” the army said in a statement.
The two Palestinian detainees — a father and son — had been arrested in a raid conducted as part of a search for a terrorist who had killed two of the servicemen’s comrades in a shooting attack outside the Givat Assaf outpost in the central West Bank.
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The Palestinians are suspected of assisting the terrorist in his escape. They remain in Israeli custody but have yet to be charged as of Thursday.
According to the indictment against the soldiers, during the assault, the troops removed the blindfold from the son “so that he would see how they were hitting” his father.
One of the soldier filmed the violence with his cellular telephone while the other soldiers “cheered with joy and pride to one another — all of this in front of the camera lens,” according to the indictment.
The servicemen are accused of striking the father in the head, face, right arm, back, ribs and legs, and of hitting the son in the head, face, chest, stomach, legs and testicles. “One of the suspects even pulled [the son’s] hair,” the indictment read.
The son had a number of wounds to his head and “significant swelling” to his face, according to the charge sheet. The father sustained multiple broken ribs and a “severely” broken nose, as well as subdermal bleeding around his stomach. He was hospitalized for three days after the beating, according to the indictment.
The extent of the father’s injuries were so great that he was unable to be interrogated for several days.
The five soldiers were charged with aggravated assault and aggravated abuse, the army said.
Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
In addition, two of the soldiers were indicted for obstruction of justice as they are suspected of trying to coordinate false testimonies about the incident.
With the filing of the charges, military prosecutors also requested to keep the five suspects in custody through the trial.
Several right-wing politicians on Thursday criticized the military for seeking to punish the soldiers.
“Am I the only one who’s not shocked that soldiers gave a little beating to terrorists who helped someone who killed their comrades? This is at most a disciplinary matter,” Bezalel Smotrich, the newly elected leader of the far-right Jewish Home party, said in a tweet.
He said his party planned to pass a law that would give immunity to soldiers from criminal proceedings.
Provocateur Likud MK Oren Hazan accused the military of “trumping up charges” against the soldiers.
“This indictment is another mark of disgrace for a military command that doesn’t know how to support its soldiers,” Hazan wrote in a tweet.
If convicted, the five soldiers would face heavy prison sentences.
Separately, the platoon commander of the soldiers, a lieutenant, is suspected of knowing about the abuse of the prisoners and not taking action against it. As of Thursday, he remains confined to base as military prosecutors determine what steps to take against him.
The soldiers involved all serve in the Kfir Brigade’s religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
Soldiers in the battalion, which operates in the West Bank, have been at the center of several controversies connected to right-wing extremists and Palestinians, especially of late.
Bezalel Smotrich after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Last month, two members of the battalion were dismissed from duty after they fought with a group of Border Police officers who had arrested civilian friends of theirs for throwing rocks at Palestinian homes in Ramallah.
Also in December, the Military Police launched an investigation into the actions of Netzah Yehuda soldiers who shot dead an East Jerusalem man they said tried to ram them with his car at a West Bank checkpoint. An initial investigation into the incident found that no such ramming attempt had occurred.
In 2016, a soldier from the battalion was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for taking part in what was called the “hate wedding,” in which extremists celebrated the murder of a Palestinian toddler several months earlier.
Soldiers from the battalion have also been convicted in the past of torturing and abusing Palestinian prisoners.
The battalion was created so that ultra-Orthodox and other religious soldiers can serve without feeling they are compromising their beliefs. The soldiers do not interact with female troops to the same extent as other servicemen and are given additional time for prayer and study. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
The bereaved parents of two slain IDF soldiers, whose unit members are facing trial for seriously beating two bound and blindfolded Palestinian suspects in revenge for their comrades’ deaths, have asked military courts to be lenient in sentencing the accused servicemen.
The written requests came as media reports revealed testimony from the two Palestinians in which they claimed the soldiers repeatedly beat them and forced one of them, a teenage boy, to watch as his father was assaulted.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers Sgt. Yosef Cohen and Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef were shot dead near the Givat Assaf outpost on December 13, in an attack that also seriously wounded two other people — soldier Netanel Felber and Shira Sabag, a civilian woman. The shooter, Asem Barghouti, was arrested by the IDF nearly a month later.
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Five Israeli soldiers from Cohen and Yosef’s unit are charged with seriously beating two handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian suspects, a father and his 15-year-old son, who were arrested during the search for Barghouti, on suspicion of having aided the gunman’s escape.
The soldiers involved, all of whom serve in the Kfir Brigade’s religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion, deny the accusations and claim they did not abuse the Palestinian detainees.
A photo composite shows Sgt. Yosef Cohen, left, and Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef of the IDF’s Kfir Brigade. The two were killed on December 13, 2018, in a terrorist shooting attack outside the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the central West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces)
In letters to the IDF Chief Military Advocate General and the judge presiding over the case, the parents of Cohen and Yosef asked that the emotional pain the accused soldiers suffered be taken into consideration, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Wednesday.
“These soldiers, who are on trial for beating terrorists who murdered my son, are not criminals,” wrote Ilana Mor Yosef, mother of Yuval. “They share our pain. They are brothers in arms of our sons, their comrades.”
“The soldiers’ pain is my pain, their punishment is my punishment, their honor is my honor and the honor of my son,” she added.
Eliyahu and Odel Cohen, parents of Yosef, sent a letter urging that consideration be given to the accused soldiers’ argument that they received no emotional support in dealing with their comrades’ deaths and were put under enormous emotional strain when tasked with guarding two Palestinians suspected of helping the killer.
“These combat soldiers were brothers in arms, brothers in pain, injured brothers, and from the day that Yosef was murdered, they became our sons,” the Cohens wrote. “As bereaved parents we know the pain of bereavement did not pass over them… The moment when they lost their friends is not a moment to judge their shortcomings.”
An indictment was filed at the end of last month against the five soldiers, who are charged with aggravated assault and aggravated abuse.
The two Palestinians are suspected of assisting Barghouti in his escape. They remain in Israeli custody but have yet to be charged.
On Tuesday the Ynet news site published excerpts from the 300 pages of testimony investigators have gathered from the platoon commander, the military doctor who treated the prisoners, the Netzah Yehuda battalion commander and the two prisoners.
Asem (L) and Salih (R) Barghouti at a rally in Kobar after the former was released from Israeli prison in April 2018 (screenshot: Twitter)
The incident occurred on January 8, after the two were arrested during the operation to capture Barghouti. They had been loaded onto a military van and transported from the Abu Shukheidim village to an IDF base in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, some 15 minutes away.
When they arrived at the base, the two prisoners’ injuries were so bad that Border Police officers who were supposed to take custody of them and transfer them for questioning elsewhere refused to do so, Ynet reported. Medical examinations later found the Palestinians had suffered broken ribs and their noses were broken.
One of the soldiers filmed some of the beatings, though publication of the footage has been banned under a gag order.
In his testimony, the teenage Palestinian described how in addition to his own beating, he was forced to watch the soldiers hitting his father.
“I lay on the floor on my back,” he told investigators. “My hands were cuffed behind my back. I was cuffed throughout the drive,” he said and noted he was also blindfolded.
“When I got into the vehicle, one of the soldiers grabbed me and threw me inside. I was hit in the face, the chest area, the stomach, the legs, and the knees. Four soldiers beat me, with their hands, legs, and weapons.”
“One of the soldiers stamped on my leg. I took a lot of punches to the face. I couldn’t count them. Also the chest. They hit me on the knee with the barrel of a gun and with the butt of a gun in the chest, on the knees, on the thighs and the testicles. When I got out of the vehicle my face was swollen. I couldn’t open my left eye. My mouth was full of blood and also my shirt. I was also bleeding from my nose,” he said.
The teenager recalled that his blindfold was removed so that he could see what was happening to his father. One of the soldiers asked him to say the phrase, “With blood and soul we will redeem Palestine,” a popular chant among Palestinian nationalists.
“Each time they beat my father they asked me, ‘Is everything okay?’ They cursed me in Arabic. When they took the blindfold off and told me to watch how my father was receiving blows they said, ‘Look at your father, he deserves to be beaten.'”
“I saw them beating my father in the face and in the chest with a weapon and that caused broken bones,” he said. “My hands were tied behind my back. I couldn’t do anything and I didn’t say anything. I couldn’t resist and none of those in the vehicle tried to stop the violence. When they finished beating us they danced.”
Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the central West Bank on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
The father said he was interrogated for half an hour in a neighbor’s home after his arrest and then was taken away by the soldiers.
“At first they beat me with a belt and cursed me. When I asked them why they were beating me, they hit me with the butt of a gun. After that one of the soldiers stamped on my face and broke my nose. I bled massively during the journey and the soldiers didn’t give me anything. They beat me unconscious.”
“They trampled on me more than five times all over my body,” the father said, recalling he heard the soldiers beating his son. “Later I had an operation and they found I had three broken ribs.”
The son had a number of wounds to his head and “significant swelling” to his face, according to the charge sheet. The father sustained multiple broken ribs and a “severely” broken nose, as well as subdermal bleeding around his stomach. He was hospitalized for three days after the beating, according to the indictment.
The extent of the father’s injuries was so great that he could not be interrogated for several days.
The soldier who filmed the incident told investigators he did so to try and embarrass the soldiers into stopping the assault. In addition, the solder claimed he sent the video to their unit’s basic training instructor to show him how poorly the soldiers he trained had turned out.
According to the Ynet report, the soldier had denied making the video until investigators showed him the evidence.
The IDF said in a statement Tuesday that the five soldiers had agreed to have their detention extended until February 19, among other things to enable mediation.
Mediation for a plea bargain is scheduled to start next week.
According to the Shin Bet, the gunman, Asem Barghouti, also took part in another shooting attack on December 9 with his brother, Salih, in which they injured seven Israelis, among them a seven-months pregnant woman, who was seriously wounded. The woman’s baby was delivered in an emergency operation, but died days later.
Salih Barghouti was shot dead on December 12 in Kobar as he attacked Israeli security forces in an attempt to evade arrest, the army said at the time. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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One (L) of the five Israeli soldiers from the Kfir Brigade who were arrested for allegedly beating two Palestinian suspects in their custody arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)
One (L) of the five Israeli soldiers from the Kfir Brigade who were arrested for allegedly beating two Palestinian suspects in their custody arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)
The commanding officer of five soldiers suspected of beating two Palestinian detainees last month was charged Sunday with failing to prevent the alleged crime.
The troops, who serve in the religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, were indicted on January 31 and were accused of assaulting the two prisoners after they were arrested, blindfolded and handcuffed and put in the back of a military personnel carrier.
The two Palestinian detainees — a father and son — had been arrested in a raid conducted as part of a search for a terrorist who had killed two of the servicemen’s comrades in a shooting attack outside the Givat Assaf outpost in the central West Bank.
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The Palestinians were later charged with assisting the terrorist in his escape.
The lieutenant who was indicted on Sunday is not suspected of having beaten the prisoners, but of having failed to stop the soldiers from doing so.
He was charged with failing to prevent a crime, negligent assault and conduct unbecoming an officer, the army said.
According to the military, the lieutenant “saw that his soldiers were acting very violently toward Palestinian prisoners, while they were handcuffed and blindfolded, and nevertheless failed to prevent them from continuing to strike the prisoners.”
He has been suspended from his position, the army added.
The military said the lieutenant failed to “fulfill his duty and command responsibility as an officer and commander of the troops.”
The five soldiers were accused of “striking the Palestinians with slaps, punches and bludgeons while they were handcuffed and blindfolded, causing them serious injuries,” the army said in a statement last month.
According to the indictment against the soldiers, during the assault, the troops removed the blindfold from the son “so that he would see how they were hitting” his father.
One of the soldier filmed the violence with his cellphone while the other soldiers “cheered with joy and pride to one another — all of this in front of the camera lens,” according to the indictment.
The servicemen are accused of striking the father in the head, face, right arm, back, ribs and legs, and of hitting the son in the head, face, chest, stomach, legs and testicles. “One of the suspects even pulled [the son’s] hair,” the indictment read.
The son had a number of wounds to his head and “significant swelling” to his face, according to the charge sheet. The father sustained multiple broken ribs and a “severely” broken nose, as well as subdermal bleeding around his stomach. He was hospitalized for three days after the beating, according to the indictment.
The extent of the father’s injuries were so great that he could not be interrogated for several days.
The five soldiers were charged with aggravated assault and aggravated abuse, the army said.
Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
In addition, two of the soldiers were indicted for obstruction of justice as they are suspected of trying to coordinate false testimonies about the incident.
With the filing of the charges, military prosecutors also requested to keep the five suspects in custody through the trial.
After the indictment was filed last month, several right-wing politicians criticized the military for seeking to punish the soldiers.
“Am I the only one who’s not shocked that soldiers gave a little beating to terrorists who helped someone who killed their comrades? This is at most a disciplinary matter,” Bezalel Smotrich, the newly elected leader of the far-right National Union party, said in a tweet.
He said his party planned to pass a law that would give immunity to soldiers from criminal proceedings.
Provocateur Likud MK Oren Hazan accused the military of “trumping up charges” against the soldiers.
“This indictment is another mark of disgrace for a military command that doesn’t know how to support its soldiers,” Hazan wrote in a tweet.
If convicted, the five soldiers would face heavy prison sentences.
The soldiers involved all serve in the Kfir Brigade’s religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
Soldiers in the battalion, which operates in the West Bank, have been at the center of several controversies connected to right-wing extremists and Palestinians, especially of late.
Bezalel Smotrich after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
In December, two members of the battalion were dismissed from duty after they fought with a group of Border Police officers who had arrested civilian friends of theirs for throwing rocks at Palestinian homes in Ramallah.
Also in December, the Military Police launched an investigation into the actions of Netzah Yehuda soldiers who shot dead an East Jerusalem man they said tried to ram them with his car at a West Bank checkpoint. An initial investigation into the incident found that no such ramming attempt had occurred.
In 2016, a soldier from the battalion was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for taking part in what was called the “hate wedding,” in which extremists celebrated the murder of a Palestinian toddler several months earlier.
Soldiers from the battalion have also been convicted in the past of torturing and abusing Palestinian prisoners.
The battalion was created so that ultra-Orthodox and other religious soldiers can serve without feeling they are compromising their beliefs. The soldiers do not interact with female troops to the same extent as other servicemen and are given additional time for prayer and study. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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Здание МУС
Фату Бенсуда
Государственный секретарь США Майк Помпео выступил в своем микроблоге в социальной сети Twitter с осуждением заявления главного прокурора Международного уголовного суда в Гааге Фату Бенсуда, касающегося Израиля.
"Мы выступаем против неоправданного расследования, несправедливого по отношению к Израилю. Путь к стабильному миру лежит через прямые переговоры", - говорится в заявлении Помпео.
Напомним, что накануне Бенсуда заявила, что существуют основания для начала расследования по подозрению в совершении военных преступлений в секторе Газы, на Западном берегу и в Восточном Иерусалиме. Согласно заявлению прокурора, ее решению предшествовала тщательная проверка, продолжавшаяся не один год.
"Я довольна тем, что найдены разумные основания для начала расследования ситуации в Палестине", - сказала главный прокурор МУС.
В этот же день юридический советник правительства Авихай Мандельблит опубликовал заявление о том, что Израиль не признает юрисдикцию суда.
Премьер-министр Биньямин Нетаниягу прокомментировал это решение, сказав: "Это черный день для правды и справедливости – превращение Международного уголовного суда в политическое оружие против Израиля". Нетаниягу назвал решение главного прокурора МУС "скандальным и необоснованным".
Также решение Фату Бенсуда осудил глава израильского МИД Исраэль Кац, подчеркнувший, что "МУС попирает международное право, уступая палестинской пропаганде".
Решение Фату Бенсуда осудил глава израильского МИД Исраэль Кац, подчеркнувший, что "МУС попирает международное право, уступая палестинской пропаганде".
Между тем, глава исполкома ООП Саиб Арикат назвал решение МУС "позитивным и обнадеживающим шагом, приближающим начало уголовного расследования военных преступлений и отмену неприкосновенности тех, кто их совершает". А глава правительства Палестинской администрации Мухаммад аш-Штайе заявил, что решение МУС "повышает уровень доверия палестинцев к международным правовым институтам" и пообещал, что "ПНА приложит все усилия для того, чтобы предать Израиль суду".
Министерство иностранных дел Израиля ранее заявило, что обращение ПНА в Международный уголовный суд в Гааге не имеет юридической силы: конфликт не подпадает под юрисдикцию суда, поскольку еврейское государство не является членом суда, а ПНА – государством. Кроме того, палестинцы продолжают террористическую деятельность, а ХАМАС использует людей в качестве живого щита.
"Израиль ожидает, что Международный уголовный суд не поддастся палестинскому давлению и даст отпор попыткам политизировать ее деятельность, вопреки имеющемуся мандату", - заявлял израильский МИД, добавляя, что Израиль – демократическое государство с независимой судебной системой, способной вести самостоятельные расследования. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre или вторая редакция Забугорнова
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