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Israel reprimands officers for Egyptians' deaths
Israel's army chief, Gen. Moshe Yaalon, reprimanded the officers involved in killing three Egyptian soldiers last month, an army statement said. An army investigation found that the shootings resulted from "professional failure". On November 18, Israeli forces killed three Egyptian policemen near Rafah area on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. The Israeli army claimed at the time that they opened fire at the soldiers after mistaking them for Palestinian fighters trying to cross the sensitive border between the two countries. Chief of staff Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon had ordered "an official reprimand to the chain of command involved in the incident," including the army's southern brigade commander in the occupied Gaza Strip, the statement said. Yaalon stressed "the severity of the incident," saying that he found "professional failure of the IDF force regarding the method of operating tanks in that area, and failure in the control and command of the forces." Yaalon told the findings of the investigation to his Egyptian counterpart, and apologized for the incident. Posted by: Fred 2004-12-28 |
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