An Israeli armed forces officer who fired the whole mag of his automated rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then related he’d have done the same regardless of whether she had been 3 years of age was acquitted on all charges by an army court yesterday.
The infantryman, who has only been identified as “Captain R”, was charged with comparatively minor offences for the murdering of Iman al-Hams who was shot seventeen times as she ventured near an Israeli armed forces post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year back.
The method of Iman’s slaughtering, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was simply a kid who was “frightened to death”, made the shooting one of the most debatable since the Palestinian intifada exploded 5 years back although tons of other kids have also died.
[junkie-alert style=”white”] Alert textAfter the decision, Iman’s dad, Samir al-Hams, announced the regiment never planned to hold the culprit responsible.[/junkie-alert]
“They didn’t charge him with Iman’s murder, only with little offences, and now they are saying he’s trusting of those although he shot my child so often,” he announced. “This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The infantryman murdered her once and the court has murdered her again.’