Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Israel military court jails soldiers for abusing Palestinian man

 Rights groups accuse Israeli military of investigating only a fraction of cases involving crimes against Palestinians.

An Israeli military court has sentenced three Israeli soldiers to short prison terms for abusing a Palestinian man and obstructing an investigation into the incident, a rare punishment by the military against members of its own forces.

With hundreds of cases of Palestinian people killed by Israeli forces neither investigated nor punished, human rights organisations regularly accuse Israel of initiating criminal proceedings for only a fraction of the crimes allegedly committed by Israeli soldiers against Palestinians.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Wednesday that the soldiers were convicted of abuse and a third was additionally convicted of exceeding his authority and endangering a man’s life or health.

The indictments said the three soldiers, as well as a fourth, took the Palestinian man in a military four-wheel drive and drove to an unidentified “distant location”. During the drive and afterwards, “violence was used against the victim” and he was left in a remote location, the statement said.

The soldiers, whose identities were withheld, then “hid the details of the incident from their commanders in an attempt to prevent [military officials] from opening an investigation and coordinated their versions regarding the details of the incident”, the statement said.

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Israel military court jails soldiers for abusing Palestinian man

 Rights groups accuse Israeli military of investigating only a fraction of cases involving crimes against Palestinians. An Israeli military ...