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Moshe Ya'alon visiting an outpost in the Gaza Strip while serving as IDF chief of staff. (IDF Spokesperson)
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Former IDF chief: War crimes suit won't disrupt U.S. stay
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
 

Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon is not letting a civil lawsuit filed against him over war crimes disrupt his stay in the United States, Israel Radio reported Friday.

The class-action lawsuit brought by a group of Lebanese nationals was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Ya'alon is serving as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He was scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at a Thursday night conference.

Ya'alon refused to accept the lawsuit when it was delivered to him, Israel Radio said.
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The suit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), relates to the hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in the 1996 shelling by the IDF of a United Nations compound in south Lebanon's Kafr Kana and accused Ya'alon of war crimes and other human-rights violations.

CCR attorney Jamil Dakwar told Haaretz that the amount of compensation would be determined by the jury at the trial.

Last week, CCR and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed a class-action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shin Bet security service.

The lawsuit was submitted on behalf of the family members of 14 Palestinians who were killed when the IDF dropped a one-ton bomb on a Gaza neighborhood in July 2002 during the targeted killing of Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh. The compensation sought in that case is estimated in the millions of dollars.

Unlike previous suits for damages against senior Israeli defense officials, the lawsuits submitted against Ya'alon and Dichter will be processed by the U.S. court system because the two are currently staying in the U.S.
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  1.   Great news at last 22:31  |  Roy 15/12/05
  2.   Hypocrites - Again! 22:46  |  The Doc 15/12/05
  3.   Can hardly wait, Roy ... 23:17  |  Gary 15/12/05
  4.   To "Roy" #1 23:37  |  The Doc 15/12/05
  5.   No case 23:39  |  Shimshon 15/12/05
  6.   Can hardly wait 00:53  |  Roy 16/12/05
  7.   Great news at last? 01:13  |  Samson 16/12/05
  8.   Great news at last? 01:20  |  Samson 16/12/05
  9.   Nonsense 01:22  |  Mike 16/12/05
  10.   Re: Roy 01:51  |  Sam 16/12/05
  11.   Much ado about nothing 02:36  |  Reality Check 16/12/05
  12.   Not in our lifetime 03:06  |  John 16/12/05
  13.   I.D.F 03:15  |  ron 16/12/05
  14.   Roy .He has not even been tried but he is a "war criminal" already. 03:23  |  Peter SM 16/12/05
  15.   to Roy 03:30  |  Jo 16/12/05
  16.   Roy 05:02  |  George 16/12/05
  17.   To: Roy 06:03  |  Arthur 16/12/05
  18.   silly right wingers 06:21  |  proud canadian 16/12/05
  19.   yo jo 06:31  |  proud canadian 16/12/05
  20.   war crimes 06:55  |  simple-minded 16/12/05
  21.   Strange World 07:12  |  George 16/12/05
  22.   RE:SAMSON;Great news at last 07:20  |  James 16/12/05
  23.   To Proud Canadian 08:09  |  Sam 16/12/05
  24.   Can`t hardly wait! 09:44  |  armando 16/12/05
  25.   let`s sue Qaradawi 10:21  |  Avi 16/12/05
  26.   To George: US states 11:52  |  Europe is a nice place 16/12/05
  27.   GREAT NEWS AT LAST 11:59  |  cesare ferrara 16/12/05
  28.   to Jo 12:01  |  cesare ferrara 16/12/05
  29.   to sam 12:03  |  cesare ferrara 16/12/05
  30.   Roy 12:28  |  Roy 16/12/05
  31.   Why the Denial? 12:53  |  West Ham Utd 16/12/05
  32.   Let them sue 12:58  |  Alex 16/12/05
  33.   Armando in LA 13:04  |  Mike in Baltimore 16/12/05
  34.   Silly Canadian. This is just a lawyers charter. 13:06  |  Ezreal 16/12/05
  35.   Naive Canadian. This is just a lawyers charter. 13:30  |  Ezreal 16/12/05
  36.   Former IDF chief: War crimes suit won`t disrupt U.S. stay 14:03  |  Samson Chris 16/12/05
  37.   Naive Canadian. This is just a lawyers charter. 14:08  |  Ezreal 16/12/05
  38.   Naive Canadian. This is just a lawyers charter. 14:49  |  Ezreal 16/12/05
  39.   Response to Proud Canadian and West Ham United 15:03  |  Kate 16/12/05
  40.   Unenforceable anyway? 15:59  |  ron shaw 16/12/05
  41.   great news 16:11  |  Andrew 16/12/05
  42.   There are no Semitic People, only languages 16:45  |  Stephen 16/12/05
  43.   Total Hypocrisy 16:54  |  S. Lieberman 16/12/05
  44.   George`s Strange World 17:26  |  BJ 16/12/05
  45.   The point is not the money 23:19  |  Roy 16/12/05
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