IDF to investigate multiple incidents in the 2014 Gaza war
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[QUOTE]Summer's conflict spawns military investigation of six fatal incidents, including killing of 4 children on beach, IDF shelling of UN school in Gaza.
The Military Police will investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of 50 Palestinians during Operation Protective Edge, the IDF said on Saturday night following a decision by the Military Advocate General (MAG) to expand criminal investigations against IDF soldiers over a number of incidents that occurred in the Gaza Strip during the summer's military operation.
An investigation was ordered into, among other things, the circumstances of the killing of four Palestinian children on a Gaza beach by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat on July 16. A preliminary investigation found that the attack was not in accordance with IDF orders, which prompted the opening of the Military Police investigation.
A Military Police investigation was also opened into the July 24 attack on a school in northern Gaza belonging to the UN agency, in which 14 Palestinians were killed. This incident also raised suspicions that the soldiers had acted against the regulations.
Another investigation will be launched into an incident in which two ambulance drivers were killed, on July 25, in Beit Hanoun and Khan Younis. The Military Police will also investigate the attack on the Abu Jama family home on July 20, in which 27 Palestinian civilians were killed.
Another investigation will be conducted into the killing of a Palestinian woman in the area of the Dahaniyeh Palestinian airport on July 18. An initial investigation found that the woman was shot by IDF troops, despite the fact that she had received a permit to get to the airport.
Another serious investigation relates to the death of Muhammad Qdeih, who was shot while he was carrying a white flag in the area of Khuza'a, a Palestinian town in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 29.
So far, the military prosecutor's office has examined an initial inspection complaints and reports regarding over 100 incidents. Allegations regarding the 100 incidents were initially submitted to an investigative department in the IDF General Staff. Of these, 50 incidents were investigated and handed to the MAG for a decision.[/QUOTE]
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As much as I'm wary of a domestic investigation, I don't really know anything about their MP so I hope the investigation won't end up being spoiled by bias.
Didn't they just block a UN investigation into the same incidents?
[QUOTE=Sega Saturn;46663411]Didn't they just block a UN investigation into the same incidents?[/QUOTE]
See [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1436758"]here[/URL], and more specifically [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1436758&p=46479018&viewfull=1#post46479018"]here[/URL].
Israel would probably cooperate with an actual UN investigation, which would likely also take into consideration the IDF's own internal investigations.
It's the UNHCR probe Israel isn't cooperating with.
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