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IDF officer told to pay damages for shooting Palestinian

By Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent

The Hadera Magistrate's Court has ordered an Israel Defense Forces officer and the Defense Ministry to pay NIS 500,000 to a Palestinian family after the officer killed their 16-year-old son in 2002.

The officer, Captain Tzvi Koretzky, who was convicted of negligent homicide by a military court, shot and killed Mohammed Zayid of the West Bank village of Nazlat Zeid.

Koretzky thought Zeid and a relative standing next to him were egging on dozens of boys who were throwing stones at the vehicles carrying troops who had entered the village in October 2002 following a terror warning of a car bomb.

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Koretzky ordered the two boys to go into their house, which they did. The crowd of boys remained at the scene. Koretzky fired one bullet toward Zayid's home, which struck and killed the teen, who was in the living room.

The state claimed in Koretzky's defense that his actions constituted an "act of war" which grants immunity even if the soldier was negligent.

However, Judge Sabri Mohssin ruled that the IDF initiated the action in order to locate a car bomb, and shooting at the house was not directly connected to the search for the bomb. Therefore, the fatal shooting could not be construed as an "act of war."

The court determined that the soldiers had options that could have prevented Zayid's death and, therefore, the state should not be absolved of its responsibility to the family.

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1.	Sound legal reason	01:52	\|	Mark Lincoln	23/08/07

2.	to Mark Lincoln	02:43	\|	Justice	23/08/07

3.	#1, Well Mark, we can hope so...	02:54	\|	Silvienne	23/08/07

4.	To Mr. Lincoln - from Israel w/ love	03:15	\|	Hannah	23/08/07

5.	Can`t wait for the Arab apology industry to bad mouth this	03:31	\|	PETER SM	23/08/07

6.	Murder by hate.	03:47	\|	Dutch Dirk	23/08/07

7.	pay nothing!	04:26	\|	vik	23/08/07

8.	DUTCH Dirk.What compensation have Arabs ever paid	04:37	\|	PETER SM	23/08/07

9.	Dutch Dirk #6	05:34	\|	Ish	23/08/07

10.	The judge is Arab	05:41	\|	Gene	23/08/07

11.	Simply a Public Relations Gambit	05:47	\|	Natallie Durson	23/08/07

12.	Idf to pay damages	05:49	\|	Hannah	23/08/07

13.	Hadera Magistrate Court has no jurisdiction over	05:51	\|	Joseph E .	23/08/07

14.	Peter in Australia	05:54	\|	Hannah	23/08/07

15.	#8, Peter SM	06:00	\|	Silvienne	23/08/07

16.	Do these responses help at all?	06:47	\|	S	23/08/07

17.	Justice?	07:07	\|	Meira	23/08/07

18.	Goldbricking	08:45	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	23/08/07

19.	Note that there is no mention of the prison sentence.	09:05	\|	Colin Wright	23/08/07

20.	Silvienne.Just count the number of poison posts	09:07	\|	PETER SM	23/08/07

21.	Don`t jump the gun!	10:44	\|	Human	23/08/07

22.	What justice?	11:41	\|	Blacklander	23/08/07

23.	Peter SM,yes, you`re right	17:07	\|	Silvienne	23/08/07

24.	The Year Was 2002	20:07	\|	Simcha`	23/08/07

25.	Blacklander #22	00:14	\|	Hannah	24/08/07

26.	#22, Blacklander	00:41	\|	Silvienne	24/08/07

27.	To Meira	13:44	\|	John	25/08/07

28.	simcha	19:47	\|	realism	26/08/07

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