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The Israeli army's inquiries into Palestinian complaints against its soldiers are frequently flawed and less than four percent result in an indictment, an Israeli rights group said on Wednesday.
In a report entitled "Alleged Investigation," Yesh Din said more than a third of the 3,150 complaints against Israeli troops filed between 2000 and 2010, were dismissed without a criminal investigation.
And of the 1,949 cases that were investigated by the Military Police Criminal Investigations Unit (MPCID) and the Military Advocate General's Corps (MAGC), only 112 -- a rate of just 3.5 percent -- resulted in indictments, the group said.
The report accuses the two bodies of lengthy delays in conducting investigations, of failing to visit the scene of the alleged crimes and of making little or no effort to obtain witness testimony.
"The chances that a criminal offence committed by an IDF soldier against a Palestinian will successfully navigate the obstacle course of lodging a complaint, an MPCID investigation, and a decision by the MAGC before finally resulting in an indictment, are almost nil," Yesh Din said.
It accused Israel of "not meeting its obligation to protect the civilian population in the area it occupied" and called on the military to shake up its procedures for processing and investigating such allegations.
Israel army fails Palestinian complainants: NGO - Yahoo! News
In a report entitled "Alleged Investigation," Yesh Din said more than a third of the 3,150 complaints against Israeli troops filed between 2000 and 2010, were dismissed without a criminal investigation.
And of the 1,949 cases that were investigated by the Military Police Criminal Investigations Unit (MPCID) and the Military Advocate General's Corps (MAGC), only 112 -- a rate of just 3.5 percent -- resulted in indictments, the group said.
The report accuses the two bodies of lengthy delays in conducting investigations, of failing to visit the scene of the alleged crimes and of making little or no effort to obtain witness testimony.
"The chances that a criminal offence committed by an IDF soldier against a Palestinian will successfully navigate the obstacle course of lodging a complaint, an MPCID investigation, and a decision by the MAGC before finally resulting in an indictment, are almost nil," Yesh Din said.
It accused Israel of "not meeting its obligation to protect the civilian population in the area it occupied" and called on the military to shake up its procedures for processing and investigating such allegations.
Israel army fails Palestinian complainants: NGO - Yahoo! News