AFP
August 13, 2012
An Israeli soldier implicated in the killing of two Gaza women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a military court on Sunday, local media said.
The sniper, identified by Israeli media as “staff sergeant S,” was charged with manslaughter in 2010 over the fatal shooting of an unnamed individual, which Palestinian witnesses linked to the killing of 64-year-old Riyeh Abu Hajaj and her daughter Majda Abu Hajaj, 37, during Israel’s “Cast Lead” Gaza offensive.
But the Israeli military said the charge had on Sunday been reduced from manslaughter to using a weapon illegally.
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almost every day you hear stories like that, it is sad, that people doen’t seem to be interested anymore. read on my blog about a supreme court hearing about the demolition of a Palestine West Bank village: http://intothepromisedland.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-demolition-of-west-bank-palestinian-village/