IDF Closes Case Against Officer Who Shelled Gaza Clinic 'In Memory' of Fallen Comrade

[fanger]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

 

[ForeverYoung436]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

War is hell. Did anyone in that medical clinic die, in that revenge shelling? I have read other stories, about Israeli soldiers putting themselves at risk and even dying, in order to save civilians.

 

[Shusha]

The IDF inquiry did not uncover any evidence for a lack of military justification for the shelling. In other words, the shelling was operationally justifiable. (Not surprisingly, since the medical clinic was being used by Hamas military operatives to attack). In other words, while it was inappropriate for the Lt. Col. to frame the shelling as "revenge", he did not violate the military rules he was operating under. He was politically correct, but there was no wrong-doing.

Being aware that the intent of the OP is to demonize Israel, Israelis, the IDF and, likely, Jews, let's instead call to mind that Hamas was using a medical clinic for military purposes -- in clear violation of international law and any moral standards.

 

[Phoenall]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

AND what does the P.A. do to its members that murder |Israeli children then. When the arab muslims start to take heed of their own laws and arrest criminals then you will have a valid complaint. But I have never heard of an arab muslim terrorist getting arrested by the P.A. and tried for their crimes.


ONCE AGAIN YOU DREDGE THE INTERNET FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN USE AGAINST THE JEWS BECAUSE YOU ARE A NAZI RACIST POS

 

[fanger]

Quoting Haaretz Is anti-semetic?

 

[Phoenall]

Quoting Haaretz Is anti-semetic?

Try getting a refresher course in English, as no one said you were anti semitic.

I DID SAY YOU ARE A NAZI RACIST POS, WHICH YOU PROVE EVERY DAY WHEN YOU POST

 

[P F Tinmore]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

Of course the real reason that Israel destroyed Shujaiyeh is that it was inside the newly expanded buffer zone. Farmland, homes, factories, mosques, clinics, destroyed not to mention all of the needless death, all because Israel wanted a bigger buffer zone. There is no military necessity for this zone.

There is nothing new here. Israel has been destroying everything in its path for the buffer zone it has been creating for the last 15 years.

Remember around the time that Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah, Israel was destroying entire civilian neighborhoods for no other reason than it wanted a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt.

 

[Shusha]

Oh paleeeeze!. The military events in Shujaiyeh couldn't possibly have anything to do with the tunnels built there and Hamas amassing weapons and military personnel there to actively fight the IDF and make incursions to harm Israel and Israelis.

No, of course not. The Jews are evil I tell you! They only want to kill innocent people and take over the world!

Come on, P F Tinmore . Don't fall into that bit of nastiness. You can be better than that.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Oh paleeeeze!. The military events in Shujaiyeh couldn't possibly have anything to do with the tunnels built there and Hamas amassing weapons and military personnel there to actively fight the IDF and make incursions to harm Israel and Israelis.

No, of course not. The Jews are evil I tell you! They only want to kill innocent people and take over the world!

Come on, P F Tinmore . Don't fall into that bit of nastiness. You can be better than that.

Israel's standard line of crap.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Phoenall]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

Of course the real reason that Israel destroyed Shujaiyeh is that it was inside the newly expanded buffer zone. Farmland, homes, factories, mosques, clinics, destroyed not to mention all of the needless death, all because Israel wanted a bigger buffer zone. There is no military necessity for this zone.

There is nothing new here. Israel has been destroying everything in its path for the buffer zone it has been creating for the last 15 years.

Remember around the time that Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah, Israel was destroying entire civilian neighborhoods for no other reason than it wanted a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt.

THER MUST BE IF THERE WAS A MOSQUE, CARE CENTRE, REFUGEE CAMP AND AS YOUR MAP SHOWS PLENTY OF URBAN AREAS FROM WHICH TO FIRE ILLEGAL WEAPONS AT ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN.




GUESS YOU LOSE AGAIN USING YOUR OWN LINK

 

[P F Tinmore]

The Israeli army will not take legal action against a senior Armored Corps officer who ordered his troops to fire at a Palestinian medical clinic during the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip, apparently "in memory" of a fellow officer killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Instead, the IDF's Military Advocate General decided that Battalion commander Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun will only be reprimanded, and that his actions will be taken into account when considering his future deployment and promotion.

The IDF launched the investigation last June, due to the suspicion that the order to bombard the clinic in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood — which was intended to “raise the troops' morale" as a “salute” to Armored Corps company commander Dmitri Levitas — was in violation of army regulations.

At the time, Yeshurun told the IDF Ground Forces publication Bayabasha that he had been sorry that he and his troops could not be at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery for Levitas' funeral, “and therefore we decided to fire a volley of shells toward the point from which he lost his life.”

The Military Advocate General condemned Yeshurun's remarks, which suggested that firing a barrage was a legitimate act of revenge. This "doesn't accord with IDF values and his remarks constitute a failure of command," said the Military Advocate General. However, according to the IDF, the investigation didn't yield enough evidence to disprove the claim that the volley was justified on an operational level. Therefore, the case was closed and the officer will not be charged.

IDF closes case against officer who shelled Gaza clinic 'in memory' of fallen comrade - Israel News
And there you have it

Of course the real reason that Israel destroyed Shujaiyeh is that it was inside the newly expanded buffer zone. Farmland, homes, factories, mosques, clinics, destroyed not to mention all of the needless death, all because Israel wanted a bigger buffer zone. There is no military necessity for this zone.

There is nothing new here. Israel has been destroying everything in its path for the buffer zone it has been creating for the last 15 years.

Remember around the time that Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah, Israel was destroying entire civilian neighborhoods for no other reason than it wanted a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt.

THER MUST BE IF THERE WAS A MOSQUE, CARE CENTRE, REFUGEE CAMP AND AS YOUR MAP SHOWS PLENTY OF URBAN AREAS FROM WHICH TO FIRE ILLEGAL WEAPONS AT ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN.




GUESS YOU LOSE AGAIN USING YOUR OWN LINK

Talk about shoveling Israeli crap!

Good boy.

 

[Phoenall]

Oh paleeeeze!. The military events in Shujaiyeh couldn't possibly have anything to do with the tunnels built there and Hamas amassing weapons and military personnel there to actively fight the IDF and make incursions to harm Israel and Israelis.

No, of course not. The Jews are evil I tell you! They only want to kill innocent people and take over the world!

Come on, P F Tinmore . Don't fall into that bit of nastiness. You can be better than that.

Israel's standard line of crap.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Why is it as bad as your islamonazi propaganda standard line of crap, that has been disproved every time you post it

 

[P F Tinmore]

Oh paleeeeze!. The military events in Shujaiyeh couldn't possibly have anything to do with the tunnels built there and Hamas amassing weapons and military personnel there to actively fight the IDF and make incursions to harm Israel and Israelis.

No, of course not. The Jews are evil I tell you! They only want to kill innocent people and take over the world!

Come on, P F Tinmore . Don't fall into that bit of nastiness. You can be better than that.

Israel's standard line of crap.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Why is it as bad as your islamonazi propaganda standard line of crap, that has been disproved every time you post it

Disproved how? By throwing Israeli lies at it?

 

[fanger]

The Jews are evil I tell you! They only want to kill innocent people and take over the world!

 

[fanger]

“The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

Israeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.

The UN inquiry, which examined both forensic evidence and testimonies of UN staff in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer, concluded seven incidents were attributable to the Israel Defence Forces.

Ban added: “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”

Although the report has no legal status, the disclosure of the inquiry’s findings comes at a difficult time for Israel on the international stage, facing increasing international isolation over its policies and following the acceptance of the Palestinian Authority as a signatory to the International Criminal Court earlier this month.

The attacks on UN schools being used as shelters were among some of the mostcontroversial incidents of the war. International humanitarian law – while complex – requires attacking forces in areas where there are non-combatants to protect civilians and adhere to the principle of proportionality, safeguards even more stringent when civilians are under UN protection.


In one of the most serious incidents, the UNRWA school in Jabaliya was struck by Israeli fire, killing 20 people and wounding dozens.

In the aftermath of the attack Israel claimed – including in a report into the incident – that soldiers near the school were had come under fire.

In another incident that saw Israeli munitions strike a UN school in Beit Hanoun 15 Palestinians were killed in the playground as they awaited evacuation while dozens more injured.

Israeli sources had originally tried to suggest that the attack had been due to a Hamas weapon falling short.
Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds

 

[fanger]

Also unaddressed is why Israeli forces fired on designated protected locations outside of the principle of immediate self-defence when they were aware of concentrations of civilians sheltering there.

Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, which runs Gaza’s UN schools said: “The inquiry found that despite numerous notifications to the Israeli army of the precise GPS coordinates of the schools and numerous notifications about the presence of displaced people, in all seven cases investigated by the Board of Inquiry when our schools were hit directly or in the immediate vicinity, the hit was attributable to the IDF.

“The board confirms the use by the IDF of weaponry such as 120 mm high explosive anti-tank projectiles and 155 MM high explosive projectiles on or in the surrounding area of UNRWA schools where civilians had taken refuge. In the incidents investigated at least 44 people were killed and 227 injured including women and children. In none of the schools which were hit directly or in the immediate vicinity, were weapons discovered or fired from. If it were confirmed that militants did fire rockets from our schools we would condemn it, just as we robustly we condemned other violations of our neutrality.”

“The findings of the secretary general’s inquiry are fully consistent with the statements made by UNRWA that we did not hand any weapons over to Hamas. The Board of Inquiry has not found any evidence that we did. The Board of Inquiry found that upon the first discovery UNRWA senior management notified local authorities in Gaza about the weapons and asked for their removal. Within days of the first unprecedented discovery, the UN had established a mechanism for dealing with the weaponry and by the time of the third discovery, international experts were on hand.”

Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds

 

[Hollie]

“The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters.”

Israeli diplomats had exerted pressure on the UN to delay publication of the report until the completion of Israel’s own investigations into the attacks – conducted by the Israeli military advocate general Danny Efroni. Israel’s military in September opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks on some of the UN schools and an incident that killed four Palestinian children on a beach.

The UN inquiry, which examined both forensic evidence and testimonies of UN staff in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer, concluded seven incidents were attributable to the Israel Defence Forces.

Ban added: “I will work with all concerned and spare no effort to ensure that such incidents will never be repeated.”

Although the report has no legal status, the disclosure of the inquiry’s findings comes at a difficult time for Israel on the international stage, facing increasing international isolation over its policies and following the acceptance of the Palestinian Authority as a signatory to the International Criminal Court earlier this month.

The attacks on UN schools being used as shelters were among some of the mostcontroversial incidents of the war. International humanitarian law – while complex – requires attacking forces in areas where there are non-combatants to protect civilians and adhere to the principle of proportionality, safeguards even more stringent when civilians are under UN protection.


In one of the most serious incidents, the UNRWA school in Jabaliya was struck by Israeli fire, killing 20 people and wounding dozens.

In the aftermath of the attack Israel claimed – including in a report into the incident – that soldiers near the school were had come under fire.

In another incident that saw Israeli munitions strike a UN school in Beit Hanoun 15 Palestinians were killed in the playground as they awaited evacuation while dozens more injured.

Israeli sources had originally tried to suggest that the attack had been due to a Hamas weapon falling short.
Israel responsible for Gaza strikes on UN schools and shelters, inquiry finds

How do you islamist terrorist Pom Pom flailers justify schools being used for the purpose of waging war?

 

[montelatici]

The schools were not used for the purpose of waging war. Why do you megaphone flailing Israel cheerleaders continuously lie?

 

[Hollie]

The schools were not used for the purpose of waging war. Why do you megaphone flailing Israel cheerleaders continuously lie?

Storing war materials in schools (schools bought and paid for by the Islamic terrorist welfare maintenance fraud known as UNRWA), is a part of the Islamic terrorist war effort.

Why do you gutter dwelling converts make excuses for your Islamic terrorist heroes?

 

[Hollie]

The schools were not used for the purpose of waging war. Why do you megaphone flailing Israel cheerleaders continuously lie?

Pass that on to the prayer leader at your madrassah.