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IDF Captain "R" receiving his weapon in return after hearing the Southern Command court's ruling earlier this year. (Limor Edrey) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 13:05 14/12/2006 IDF officer cleared in death of Gaza girl to receive compensation from state By Amos Harel, Haaretz correspondent A Givati Brigade officer will receive NIS 80,000 in compensation from the state after he was cleared of all charges in relating to the death of 13-year-old Palestinian girl, Iman Al Hamas, in the much-publicized "confirmed kill" affair. Captain "R" will receive NIS 80,000 in compensation from the state in addition to reimbursement for NIS 2,000 of legal expenses, as part of an arrangement reached between his lawyers and the military prosecution. The agreement was made official Wednesday in the Israel Defense Forces's Southern Command court. Advertisement The officer, who at the time of the incident was serving as a company commander in the Givati infantry brigade's Shaked battalion, has since been promoted to major, and is currently serving as an operations officer in the brigade. The judges who acquitted Captain R accepted his version of event, in which he stated that the shots that he fired were not aimed directly at the girl's body. Captain R told the court he opened fire in order to create a deterrence, and that he believed that the young girl posed a serious threat. The judges also criticized the Military Police's investigation of the case, which was based upon a poor transcription of recorded evidence and upon the testimonies of disgruntled soldiers serving under Captain R Bookmark to del.icio.us A Palestinian gesture The top PA diplomat in Poland joined his Israeli counterpart on a visit to Auschwitz. Link to Temple found A controversial excavation at Temple Mount has unearthed fragments from First Temple era.   1.   awarding child-killer 18:45  |  angryman 22/03/06   2.   Rightly So 18:50  |  Odyssey 22/03/06   3.   One of our finest Jew. 18:57  |  Rabbi Benyamin Gold 22/03/06   4.   No Child Killer 19:01  |  happyman 22/03/06   5.   Speechless 19:03  |  Reality Check 22/03/06   6.   Perverse rewards 19:13  |  Timothy L 22/03/06   7.   murderer rewareded 19:19  |  Nick 22/03/06   8.   Shame on Israel and his "judicial" system !! 19:21  |  David 22/03/06   9.   Compensation for a child killer 19:22  |  Gad Giladi 22/03/06   10.   Israel is vile beyond belief 19:28  |  SpottedClick 22/03/06   11.   # 1 angryman 19:31  |  Shelly 22/03/06   12.   Hopw can Isarelis live with this? 19:36  |  David 22/03/06   13.   make a mitzva! 19:40  |  muhamad al-sharmoota 22/03/06   14.   IDF POLICING ITSELF? 19:43  |  David 22/03/06   15.   To Odyssey #2 19:48  |  Matt 22/03/06   16.   shelly...the man killed the child 19:48  |  angryman 22/03/06   17.   To #3 Rabbi gold 19:50  |  matt 22/03/06   18.   Child killers.. 20:01  |  Oklahoman 22/03/06   19.   Children 20:08  |  DS 22/03/06   20.   #15 Matt 20:08  |  Odyssey 22/03/06   21.   Obviously people don`t care about justice 20:10  |  Ilan Toren 22/03/06   22.   STOP Whining...All of you 20:10  |  Yoni 22/03/06   23.   in cold blood 20:10  |  Timothy L 22/03/06   24.   How could anyone ever think!!!???????????? 20:15  |  Yaakov Sullivan 22/03/06   25.   Dear Rabbi Gold, now you must know why#3 20:22  |  Yaakov Sullivan 22/03/06   26.   Reality Check, do you think this murderer stands alone?? 20:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 22/03/06   27.   #5 -Reality Check`s reality check 20:32  |  Paul 22/03/06   28.   child-killer 20:39  |  jeremy fish 22/03/06   29.   TO Matt 20:43  |  Steve Beikirch 22/03/06   30.   How to foment anti-semitism 20:43  |  Pete 22/03/06   31.   Rabbi Benyamin Gold 20:44  |  Seawife 22/03/06   32.   Child killer 20:46  |  JSB 22/03/06   33.   Anything to do with the report about Jewish anti-Arab bias? 20:48  |  Dave 22/03/06   34.   Perverse rewards 20:48  |  Seawife 22/03/06   35.   Arab hypocrisy 20:50  |  Vincent 22/03/06   36.   to all of you 20:50  |  the bleiver 22/03/06   37.   TO Rabbi Benyamin Gold - One of our finest Jew. 20:51  |  Steve Beikirch 22/03/06   38.   Shelly, Gad Giladi 20:58  |  Seawife 22/03/06   39.   yaakov sullivan a self hating jew 21:04  |  mike 22/03/06   40.   even if he did it out of cold blood and was guilty 21:09  |  avi 22/03/06   41.   To Seawife: can none of you read? 21:11  |  Ora 22/03/06   42.   Responce to #3 21:18  |  Ash 22/03/06   43.   Israel Rewards Jewish Terrorist and Child Murderer 21:29  |  Disgusted American 22/03/06   44.   #29 Steven Beikirch 21:41  |  alfa 22/03/06   45.   Avi 21:45  |  Seawife 22/03/06   46.   IDF 22:18  |  Big 22/03/06   47.   Human Shield 22:25  |  Tomorrow 22/03/06   48.   Israels revolving door prisons 22:42  |  Jens 22/03/06   49.   child killer 22:46  |  Natalie Ginsburg 22/03/06   50.   Fascism on the rise 23:35  |  Michael 22/03/06   51.   shalhevet paz 23:42  |  Just Frank 22/03/06   52.   IDF investigations 23:53  |  Heinz 22/03/06   53.   Jew killed 23:59  |  Baruch Goldstein 22/03/06   54.   JENS REVOLTING POSTS 00:07  |  ABU JENSEN 23/03/06   55.   Disgusted American Is only Disgusting american 00:10  |  Beautiful humanoid 23/03/06   56.   justice 00:23  |  Fares 23/03/06   57.   You Make Me Sick! 00:52  |  Nadia 23/03/06   58.   Rabbi Gold #3 01:08  |  Sarah Finkelstein 23/03/06   59.   #43, american 01:10  |  vladimir 23/03/06   60.   reply to #3 01:29  |  Mar 23/03/06   61.   Reply to #35 01:39  |  OMAR 23/03/06   62.   NADIA 57 01:48  |  ALAN 23/03/06   63.   To all those angry Israel bashers 02:00  |  Allon 23/03/06   64.   omar 61 02:15  |  alan 23/03/06   65.   shameful 02:53  |  Jan Elshout 23/03/06   66.   shameful 02:56  |  Jan Elshout 23/03/06   67.   Nadia makes me sick 03:02  |  peter 23/03/06   68.   From all US angry Israel bashers 03:03  |  Doubting Thomas 23/03/06   69.   Thank you Col. "R", may I have another? 03:13  |  Just Frank 23/03/06   70.   Peter , Nadia 03:18  |  Seawife 23/03/06   71.   A Failed Society --no pillars of justice 03:33  |  Dutch 23/03/06   72.   "doubting thomas" is doubtfully credible 03:49  |  jeremy 23/03/06   73.   dutch, a failed terror apologist 03:56  |  jeremy 23/03/06   74.   Disturbing and Sick 04:09  |  Billy B 23/03/06   75.   to all 04:35  |  vladimir 23/03/06   76.   Soldier should be praised 04:38  |  it`s logic 23/03/06   77.   You People Are Savages 05:02  |  YesWeHaveNoBananas 23/03/06   78.   More.... 05:04  |  Billy B 23/03/06   79.   23:44 Security forces catch second suicide bomber in 24 hours 05:05  |  bibi 23/03/06   80.   Doubting Thomas 05:15  |  same 23/03/06   81.   vlad 05:18  |  just frank 23/03/06   82.   seawife, you make me even sicker 05:27  |  peter 23/03/06   83.   You are one sick society 05:33  |  justiceseeker 23/03/06   84.   But then will the justice fin who did this? 05:35  |  David 23/03/06   85.   Gad 06:05  |  Connie 23/03/06   86.   Israel Can Make This Right 10:31  |  David Torres 23/03/06   87.   Israel had given enought light to other :) 13:00  |  Jacoub Jousef 23/03/06   88.   IDF officer cleared in death of Gaza girl to receive compensation 15:51  |  Sam Spade 23/03/06   89.   Rabbi Benyamin Gold hes not Jewish.. 19:28  |  KJJ 23/03/06   90.   To all the anti semites,He is not Jewish.. 19:31  |  KJJ 23/03/06   91.   A SINFUL VERDICT 20:49  |  Dutch 23/03/06   92.   #3 Rabbi Benyamin Gold. Did you mean "birab"? "abraib"? "ibbra"? 21:52  |  zmogus 23/03/06   93.   #90, KKJ. Forget your idea-fix, it`s not a problem 22:38  |  zmogus 23/03/06   94.   Death of innocence is the true sin 04:26  |  Human being 24/03/06   95.   reply to 3 06:38  |  paulo2006 24/03/06   96.   Justify this 15:04  |  butterKnife 24/03/06   97.   The Israeli Soldier Who Murdered the Young Girl 20:49  |  AJ Layon 25/03/06   98.   Rabbi Hilel 07:23  |  J Finkel 28/03/06   99.   Milatary justice is to justice what band music is to music 19:25  |  RB 01/04/06   100.   Nonsense 02:13  |  Next Generation 22/10/07

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