Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Rights group: Only 6% of abuse claims against IDF yield charges

"The Israel Defense Forces indicted just 6 percent of all soldiers accused of criminal offenses against Palestinians between September 2001 and the end of 2007, an Israeli human rights group said Wednesday.

The Yesh Din group said that from the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising, more than 1,200 investigations into suspect activities by Israeli soldiers were conducted, but only 78 of the investigations resulted in charges being filed...."

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