IDF prosecutors have asked to to exhume the remains of a 13-year-old Palestinian girl whose death near a southern Gaza outpost is at the center of a storm of over suspicions that an army officer "confirmed" her killing by firing a burst of automatic fire into her prone body, Israel Radio reported Thursday.
On October 5 Iman Alhamas was shot dead by soldiers from the Givati Brigade near the IDF Girit outpost near Tel el-Sultan in western Rafah in the Strip.
Military Police have arrested the company's company commander on suspicion that he shot dead the girl at close range, after she had already been shot by troops and was laying on the ground.
His case is beieved to be the first time an officer is to be brought up on charges of the alleged practice of "confirming a kill," or firing at a person already wounded and incapacitated by IDF fire.
The prosecution requested the victim?s family?s authorization to exhume the body in order to conduct an autopsy to check the range of the shooting and the types of bullets.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/503300.htmlAlso from Ha'aretz:
In a separate development, the military prosecution announced Wednesday that it will bring another officer, Captain R., to trial for his part in the fatal shooting of a wounded 13-year-old girl in Rafah. The incident took place at the beginning of October, and the military prosecution said the trial would begin next Monday.
R. is being held in custody.
He will be charged with illegal use of a weapon, rather than manslaughter, and with obstruction of justice.http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=502971&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y