Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinain schoolgirl | World news | The Guardian 5.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/16/israel2

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",

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  • Truly appalling and another example of how devalued Palestinian life is viewed from the Israeli perspective.

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Created by DrPot on 31 August 2010

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disgraceful and serves only to ferment Palestinian anger.

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