NAZARETH (PIC)– An Israeli court in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands has exonerated an IOF soldier accused of killing a Palestinian citizen in a cold blood in Gaza Strip in 2003 local media sources affirmed.
The court according to the sources ruled that the Israeli military police investigators hadn’t carried out their job properly although the killer-soldier confessed to the crime.
A video tape registered as admissible evidence in the case which was portraying scenes and events of the crime was mysteriously lost from the court’s records.
According to the judge who rendered the exoneration decision the crime couldn’t be properly re-enacted due to big changes in the milestones of the crime place where the Palestinian was gunned down.
The accused soldier is a sniper in the Israeli occupation army and he acknowledged during the investigation that he had “unreasonably” shot and killed the Palestinian citizen who was participating in peaceful rally in Gaza city and that he had violated rules of engagement in this regard.
He also admitted that after killing the Palestinian he said “Another Arab has been gunned down”.
The exoneration of the killer-soldier came a year after another Israeli court acquitted an IOF officer involved in the killing of Palestinian child Iman Al-Hams 10 who was on her way to school in Rafah district south of the Strip in 2003. Body of Al-Hams was riddled with more than 20 bullets.
