The Israeli military has today announced that it is closing its investigation of the January 2009 killing of 21 members of a single family in the Gaza Strip, saying that “no legal steps” will be taken against those responsible for the deaths.
The killings were among the most notorious of the 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip, and has Israeli soldiers ordering the extended family out of their home so they could use it as a military outpost. The soldiers ordered the family into a smaller building on the other side of the road.
Shortly after being forced to move, an Israeli drone flew overhead, and decided that the civilians inside were “armed Palestinians” and launched an air strike against the house. The first strike killed one person, and when the family tried to flee the house they were told to go back inside. A second missile destroyed the house.
The family was then trapped under the rubble. In all, 21 were killed and nearly 40 others wounded. The troops who occupied their actual house remained, and the military blocked ambulances from reaching the scene to tend to survivors for three days.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which pushed the probe in the first place, condemned its closure, saying it “is unacceptable that no one is found responsible for an action of the army that led to the killing of 21 uninvolved civilians, inside the building they were in under soldier’s orders, even if not deliberately.” The military said their probe “disproved” the claims that the killings were deliberate, and denied that bombing what they new was a houseload of civilians constituted “recklessness or criminal negligence.”
It is Israel. Did anyone except any different outcome from an investigation by Israel about and Israel military conduct. The really sad fact is the Israel military is really could not exist without the USA massive support. How we provide money and not demand better conduct is beyond me.
"…demand better conduct…" Well, it's because we're (the US) on the wrong end of the leash. The Israel Firsters in the Congress would start impeachment proceedings if the Administration actually attempted to admonish the Israelis about their actions. I actually don't believe that there is any level of atrocity that the Israelis could commit that might earn disapproval from the USG/Congress in particular. These lemmings are so terrified of coming down on the "anti-Israel list" that AIPAC waves in their faces come every election cycle. And the American people don't give a rat's behind either way.
They don't care when the mighty IDF rapes Palestinian children, why would this make a difference?
that was nuthn, shudda seen us in Lebanon
It's all in the day of a Zionist.