B’Tselem: The IDF can’t keep calling targeting failures ‘mistakes’ if it doesn’t try to fix them
The IDF’s war crimes probes in the 2014 Gaza war are a thinly veiled attempt to appear to investigate while providing a whitewash mechanism to clear all the soldiers, commanders and politicians involved of wrongdoing, a B’Tselem report said on Tuesday.
Two years after the war ended, the human rights group has concluded that the only way justice will be done for what it estimates were 1,391 Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF during the war, will be if the International Criminal Court prosecutor intervenes.
One central claim of the report is that while the IDF’s five reports explaining which cases have been criminally investigated and the reasons for not issuing indictments could show a genuine push to review war crimes allegations if each case is looked at in isolation, the broader picture is problematic.
One central claim of the report is that while the IDF’s five reports explaining which cases have been criminally investigated and the reasons for not issuing indictments could show a genuine push to review war crimes allegations if each case is looked at in isolation, the broader picture is problematic.
As reported by The Jerusalem Post