{"id":2550,"date":"2008-02-27T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/israeli-army-wont-probe-gaza-deaths\/2550\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:35:28","slug":"israeli-army-wont-probe-gaza-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/israeli-army-wont-probe-gaza-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army won&#8217;t probe Gaza deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/world\/israeli-army-wont-probe-gaza-deaths\/2008\/02\/27\/1203788440040.html\">Ed O&#8217;Loughlin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE Israeli army has decided not to order a disciplinary probe into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The dead men, women and children included at least 13 members of the Athamneh family, among them a one-year-old girl. Another 35 people were injured as 12 155-millimetre heavy artillery shells struck the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun for several minutes. Israeli rights groups yesterday claimed there was a &#8220;culture of impunity&#8221; in the Israeli security forces, after the decision was announced.<\/p>\n<p>This week the Israel Defence Forces&#8217; (IDF) adjutant-general announced that an extremely rare computer malfunction had caused the shells to strike 500 metres from their intended target, a field that had been used by militants to fire missiles at Israel. There was therefore no reason to charge any soldier with negligence or any other offence, Brigadier-General Avihai Mandelblit decided. The announcement did not consider the gunners&#8217; supposed failure to notice their shells going astray.<\/p>\n<p>The Beit Hanoun bombardment followed an incident in June 2006 in which seven members of the picnicking Ghalya family were killed by an explosion on a north Gaza beach. The Israeli human rights group B&#8217;tselem yesterday said the Beit Hanoun decision reflected a &#8220;culture of impunity&#8221; in the forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to ask ourselves whether the IDF&#8217;s internal investigations meet the basic standards of international law,&#8221; said spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed O&#8217;Loughlin THE Israeli army has decided not to order a disciplinary probe into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006. The dead men, women and children included at least 13 members of the Athamneh family, among them a one-year-old girl. Another 35 people were injured as 12 155-millimetre heavy artillery shells struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[67],"class_list":{"0":"post-2550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}